Oh, all those wonderful painted pictures, colorful drawings and collages our kids create!  Creativity is a wonderful and amazing thing and it’s so fun to see what our kids come up with, especially if you’re not particularly creative such as myself.  But there needs to be some balance between creativity gone wild and home organization.  Usually what I see in people’s homes is that they just have waaaaay to much of every type of art supply that their kids are using.  Bags of crayons, tubs of markers, oodles of colored pencils, glue sticks galore, oh my. 

Here’s a few ways to tame the art supply monster:

• Really, just keep a reasonable amount.  Your kids can color with one big box of new crayons; they really don’t need 500.
• Throw out broken crayons.  Really, you have a lot.
• Make sure all the markers still work-your kids can help with this one.  Out go the dried out ones!
• Bag up all the excess supplies and donate them.
• Bag up all the excess and store as a back-up and stop buying new items.  Only do this if you have room to store it.
• Create an art caddy like the photo above.  You will have just what your kids need right at their fingertips, it will be mobile and it forces you to choose just the best items because there is a cap on how much you can add to the caddy.

Keep your art supply stock reasonable, keep your kid’s creative juices flowing and keep a handle on your home organization goals.

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