Carousel Art Supply Organizer

If you know Shiloh Kiefer at all, even the tiniest bit, then you also know how much she loves doing arts and crafts. LOVES. She is content to sit at a table with arts and craft supplies for close to TWO HOURS at times, just art-ing and craft-ing to her little heart's content. So needless to say, we have a slew of art supplies but didn't have a clever way of storing some of the most basic ones... until now! I began pittering around the internet for ideas and came across things like this and this that I thought were semi-neat... until I saw this post. THERE. That's it-- festive, fun, and functional! What a perfect way to organize preschool art supplies!!

So I gathered up the supplies...

1 wooden lazy susan (from Target): $7.99
6 metal tins (from Target's $1 section): $1 each
6 adhesive magnets: $1.99

... and gave it a go. And here's the finished product:







I love that it spins so there's easy access to all of the supplies. And by using the magnets to attach the tins, they are removable in case your little artist wants to carry her pail of crayons into a different room to color, or in case Mom wants to switch out the tins for a different theme.

And let me tell you, our little girl loves it! We made the mistake of letting her see this present first on her birthday morning, and she insisted on doing arts and crafts immediately upon seeing it. She was ecstatic. She didn't even want to open her other presents... we had to convince her!

Remember these pictures from my last post?





Her latest convictions are that she wants to be either an artist or a ballerina when she grows up. But we're not getting nearly as much ballet practice in as we are gluing, painting, coloring, and cutting!