Hi all! A little over a year ago we moved to a house where we could no longer have a designated classroom. Since we moved here I've been trying to figure out a good way to organize/arrange all of our school "stuff". We have tried several different arrangements and I think I like our current situation the most. I just have one problem: we have a lot of art supplies.
Currently, most of our supplies, except for our living books, are in my craft room. Our dining room is our "class room". We don't always do our work in there, but this is where our calendar is hung, where our white board is hung, and where the kiddos do the majority of their projects.
We have three shelves hung up on the wall that I'd like to use for some school stuff. If I need to, I also have a small end table type thing with three shelves and also a small low end table type table. On this wall is also the kids computer desk. (Currently we have our bill paying stuff there, too, but I'm thinking about moving it.)
I thought it would be just so lovely to have the kids' art pencils, paints, glue, scissors, buttons, googly eyes, etc. displayed on the shelves that are hung on the wall. I already have them in cute buckets, handmade pottery, baskets, glass jars, etc. But as I was setting all these up, I realized that they would need all the papers to go with these supplies. And the shelves are too narrow for me to put the paper supplies on. So I could either move all the other supplies into the craft room so it could be all together in one place. Or I could move more storage devices into the dining room for the paper and the art supplies could be stored out here.
I was thinking that if I decide to move the art supplies into the craft room, then maybe I can come up with a cute way to display our math manipulatives in the dining room.
I'm afraid that if I move more furniture to house paper supplies out here it will be too cluttered. But I'm also afraid that if I move all the art supplies into the craft room, then it will become an out-of-sight-out-of-mind situation. And I'm also worried that I shouldn't just put half their art supplies out here (pencils, paints, etc.) and the other half (papers) in the craft room as it won't be conducive that way.
I'm stuck... any advice?
(Sorry this is so long!)
P.S. I can take pictures of the area if it would help.