pin to present: art cart

Even before I started watching the Marie Kondo Netflix series, I was in a tidying up mode, brought on by Christmas... particularly in our playroom, where several new Lego sets and more needed a new home. Making room for those involved some weeding out of "little kid" toys, but then I also assessed the drawers full of haphazardly arranged art supplies - and decided I needed to turn to Pinterest for inspiration for a more elegant solution. Enter the art cart!

I was going to go with an inexpensive white cart that is a lot like the inspiration photo, but then Target.com's helpful "recommendations" feature showed me this bigger library-style cart, and I fell in love at first sight. More storage space, and such a fun color.

We have a lot of built-in storage in this room, so we already had the wire baskets, glass jars, and utensil caddy for storing these supplies, but they were kept on various shelves and inside cupboards that were out of Hendrik's reach. Now all of the supplies are out and in sight, which makes for a festively colorful display - plus, when we can immediately see what we have, Hendrik is more inspired to create with it, and he can access it all on his own as well. The first day we had it arranged on the cart, he right away pulled out some glue and pompoms and made a fun collage. All around, we love it!

I linked some similar storage solutions above that are working well for us - glass jars are great for various crafty things like pompoms or acrylic paints, a caddy holds all of our markers and scissors and such, and wire baskets hold other miscellaneous supplies like stickers, pipe cleaners and so on (separated in individual ziplocs), along with a separate one for paper, coloring books, and workbooks.