St. Andrew’s Home School

Or whatever number you want to assign it. I am certainly not the first person to come up with an organizational hack or even one like this, I’m sure. Actually, I saw a very similar hack in a magazine about two years ago.

While I have been busily cleaning out our home school books and stash of stuff used and unused and not-so-used I realized I needed some more (read: better) means of organizing some of the non-book items. Mostly craft stuff and math manipulatives.

I could not afford what I really wanted to do, but I needed something that would work and would work well and would work quickly. So I bought some of those nifty little wire cubes. We first bought some when we only had two wee children and needed a way for the children to store their toys. At that time we had both Mog and Goro in one room of our three bedroom house and the third room was transformed into a play room. They had shared a room since Goro was born and he did not like having a room to himself. But stacking toys in the top of the closet to keep the floor open and clean and free of tripping and drawers (what was available to us at the time) just was not cutting it. The point was to find some way to allow the children to get their things easily by themselves. Shelves are the obvious idea, preferably low shelving.

Read at my personal blog for the how-to.