Kepping Stocked

When I was a child I watch a TV show called Play School and they always had a useful box. It had craft supplies, boxes, pencils and sticky tape. Now that I have a board jar set up I need to make sure I have the right supplies and enough for everyone. So I have made a supply, craft and useful boxes. With the list I made for our board jar I also wrote out a shopping list of items I would need to do some of the crafts projects and activities like waterballons, wooden spoons, face paints also making sure I had master copies of colouring pages, word searches a copy of the story assgnment  that I found on pinterest and most importantly recipes for things like play dough, moon sand and things to cook in the kitchen. I find if I have all of these things in the one spot then when the kids what to do something I can get it started straight away instead of waiting for me to look up recipes, search online, check to see if I have supplies for projects and so on. Once again I'm hoping this will all make it a lot easier.

I started by spreading all the supplies out on the lounge room floor before deciding how to store them. I soon worked out that they would not fit all in the one box so I opted for four boxes.  One box for all the empty boxes and things the kids can recycle like egg cartons, drink bottles packet cake mix boxes washed out yoghurt containers and so on. 

Box two is for all our craft supplies, for some reason our craft items were spread right though-out the house and once I got them all together we had quite a lot. Items in hear include pencils, pens, textas, paints, pipecleners, splater screen and so much more.  

 Here is a small selection of some supplies for pasting, I get this out for the kids (so I don't have to get out full packets of everything and just replenish when supplies get low. the container is just a tackle box/craft box with 17 individual spaces that hold things like coloured match sticks, goggley eyes, pom poms, foam shapes, mini patty pans and mini icy pole sticks.

 I also have a take-away container to put all the stickers in, for some reason our two boys hate, hate, hate stickers but our 3yr old girl makes up for them and will stick them to anything she can get her hands on.

Box three has activities like play doh, bubble blowers and specialised books like sticker activity book and those books that only certain makers work with. Also it has kits like pet rock painting and paper airplanes and felt animals. I have found some of these kits in the post office and Target. have a look in your discount stores also, I'm always on the look out for inexpensive kits the kids would like.    

and lastly the fourth box is for all the colouring/activity books, word searches cut out masks (once again I got these from the discount store) small canvases, paper, coloured paper, cardboard. I'm wanting to get a folder for put master copies of colouring pages and activity sheets in but just haven't got around to that yet but please watch this space, it will be coming soon. I hate it when the kids ask me do you a colouring or something like that and I have to make them wait while I search to found it and then copy it, so the folder wont be to far away.

I hope you enjoy my supply boxes, until next time have fun.