23 diy kids school ideas
Give and Take Bulletin Board
take picture So much Twitter love from my post about my walls this year. Y’all know how to make a girl feel good! I don’t have my lesson plans ready, and am not entirely sure what I’m doing on…
Simple Steps To Get Ridiculously Organized For A Stress-Free Summer
Morning and Bedtime Daily Routine Charts for Kids – perfect for keeping them on a schedule over the summer or for back to school. DIY and printable routine charts to help teach kids independence! Plus more tips, tricks and hacks to survive Summer with your kids from whatmomslove.com Organizational hacks, tips and tricks for a stress-free summer with your kids. Smart ideas including routine & chore charts, “I’m bored” activities & more!
The 11 Best DIY Memory Box Ideas
The 11 Best DIY Memory Box Ideas for travel, baby, kids, school, concerts, and more! Not only are memory boxes are a great way to preserve your most cherished memories, but a great way to display them. From shadow box frames to upcycled books here are The 11 Best DIY Memory Box Ideas.
100 Best Back to School DIY Ideas
Impress your friends and show off your creativity with these back to school DIY ideas. These school supply DIY ideas will get you excited about going back to school! You can make your own personalized pencils, notebooks, organizers and more. For these back to school DIY Ideas, you may need: ruler scissors paint brushes (including foam … Impress your friends and show off your creativity with these back to school DIY ideas. These school supply DIY ideas will get you excited about going back to school! You can make your own personalized pencils, notebooks, organizers and more. For these back to school DIY Ideas, you may need: ruler scissors paint brushes (including foam …
100+ School Lunches Ideas the Kids Will Actually Eat
100 School Lunch Ideas Kids Will Actually Want to Eat Pin116KShare5KTweet121K SharesAre you stuck in a rut when it comes to school lunches? Are your kids begging you for something other than a sandwich and chips? Maybe you’re looking to save money on school lunches or for your kids to eat healthier. Whatever the case may be, you have come to the right place! Withread more…
24 Creative Halloween Party Favors
These 24 Halloween party favors are sure to be a hit at your kids’ school Halloween party or with your trick or treaters. There are lots to choose from ranging from non-candy favors to treat bags to cute printables and more. These 24 Halloween party favors are super cute and creative! They are perfect for Halloween school parties or to hand out for trick or treating.
DIY Kid’s Worry-Free Slime Recipe: Elmer’s Official Slime Recipe
This DIY Slime Recipe is WORRY FREE and kid-friendly! This NO Borax slime recipe is Elmer’s Official Recipe perfect for kids ages 3 & up! Pin this now and make it for parties, classrooms, sensory play and more! Just add food coloring and glitter if you want! This worry free official Elmer’s slime recipe is the perfect sensory play! Contact solution alternative is perfect for sensitive skin and little kids.
Wood Slice String Art Ornaments
These rustic DIY Wood Slice String Art Ornaments are simple to make and look beautiful on the Christmas tree. Give as a gift or add to the top of a present for a creative gift topper idea. Inspired by a Christmas children’s book, these kid’s Christmas ornaments are perfect for fine motor skills practice. fun kids crafts, kid ideas, #kids #diy kids diy ideas Add a rustic touch to your Christmas tree with this easy to make ornament. Easy enough for kids to make and pretty enough to hang on your tree.
Rudolph the Lollipop-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer Lollipop craft – super cute gift idea for kids’ school classmates for Christmas. How to make cute reindeer lollipop class gifts for Christmas. I have to admit I am slightly in love with how these Rudolph reindeer lollipop gifts turned out. (Thanks The Centsible Life for the inspiration.) They actually weren’t that hard to make – it’s one of those projects where you can set up a bit of a production line. JJ’s last day of school isn’t until this Wednesday, but we gave these reindeer lollipops out to JJ’s kindergarten classmates a …
School Supplies DIY Ideas
School Supplies DIY Ideas – oh yes we ADORE stationery, school supplies and anything back to school related. I always had a thing about stationery when young and loved making school supplies diys or personalising my stationery. Here are some wonderful Back to School DIY ideas for kids! We have a soft spot for School Supplies DIY Ideas. Here are some easy and cute Back To School DIY ideas that you will love. Must see today. So many to
10+ Ideas for Backpack Storage and Organization
From decorated to minimalist, there’s many creative solutions for backpack storage and organization you won’t want to miss as your kids head back to school. Here’s 10+ ideas to inspire you! From decorated to minimalist, here’s 10+ creative solutions for backpack storage and organization as kids head back to school. Don’t miss these great ideas!
DIY Back-to-School Photo Frame
Cherish first day of school memories with this darling DIY back-to-school photo frame. Fun back-to-school crafts for kids and back-to-school activities. Cherish first day of school memories with this darling DIY back-to-school photo frame. Fun back-to-school crafts for kids and back-to-school activities.
DIY Kids Table with Storage
Easy DIY Kids table with storage | Build a schoolhouse desk. Easy beginner’s build Get rid of all the table top clutter with this easy DIY Kids table with storage. The top flips open to reveal storage for all those books and pencils!
Yarn Wrapped Cardboard Letters
Cardboard letters wrapped with yarn made by kids. I’ve been wanting to share these cardboard letters for so long! My art camp kids made them back in July. The other day, as I was going through these photos, I realized that four of the letters spelled C.A.L.M. Boy, did I need this message. If there is anything that I am not these days,…Read More
How to Organize All of Your Child’s School Papers in Just One Box
How to Organize Papers from Your Child’s Entire School Career in Just One Box *This post may contain affiliate links. Ah, the never-ending trail of school papers that parents have to deal with! It can be such a nightmare. And if you’re a sentimental person like me, then it’s even worse, because you probably have a hard time letting things go. For the last few years, I have looked high and low for a system that actually works for storing papers that the kids bring home from school, and I just didn’t love anything that I tried. For a while, I stored them loose in boxes, and then for the last couple of years I have been storing them in random files in my file cabinet in my office. However, the school papers took up so much space that I no longer had room for my regular files (taxes, bills, etc.) so I realized that I was going to have to find a better way to do it. Today I’m going to share with you how I finally got everything organized, and y’all, it is absolute perfection! I’m only regretting not doing it sooner. And before I go any further, after you read this post, be sure to go follow me on Instagram… there is a live look at these boxes in my “Simplify 3” highlight as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the rest of my entire decluttering journey. Just look for “Simplify 1,” “Simplify 2” and “Simplify 3.” Lots of good stuff!! And I update new decluttering/organizing stuff pretty frequently so be sure to check back regularly! Let’s do it! For this project, you will need the following: 1. 1 Hanging file box for each child (you may want to go ahead and stock up on these because you will probably want to make a non-school papers keepsake box for each child in addition to this school papers keepsake box. The non-school papers keepsake box is for birthday cards, notes, artwork, and other paper keepsakes that are not affiliated with school. You can see that post here.) 2. Labels for the outside of each of the boxes 3. Chalk Markers to label each box 4. Manila folders (I needed 8-9 per box) 5. 1 Set of hanging file folders for each child (I needed 26 per box) I have these file storage boxes from Amazon and I LOVE them. They have a split lid so you can open just half of the box, and they are also slightly longer than standard file boxes so they have a bit more room. **Update for June 2018, Amazon is sold out of the 1-packs, but you can get them here at Walmart.com** If you’re looking for something similar there is also this slightly smaller size that is pretty inexpensive. Also, these, these, these, these, and these look like good options as well. If you prefer a cheaper version, you could also grab some of the cardboard banker’s boxes as well. I bought these chalkboard labels a while back as well as these chalk markers and I used those to label the outside of the boxes. These are the manila folders I purchased to go inside the hanging file folders. I use these all the time for my regular files, so eventually my box of 100 will get used. Plus they were only $10 for 100. I purchased these hanging files on Amazon because I love that they come in different colors… I chose blue for Jacob and pink for Olivia, their favorite colors respectively. I already had a set of yellow hanging file folders so I used those for my own box. Which brings me to… YES, I still have all of my old school papers. EEK. I know my parents meant well when saving all of the heaps and gobs of old papers (hiiii, Momma and Daddy!), but goodness gracious it was just too much!! Moms, listen to me when I say – when your kids are adults, they will NOT want every single piece of paperwork that they ever brought home from their entire school career! Take it from someone who just cleaned out boxes and boxes AND BOXES of old school papers. I had so much stuff that I got tired of looking at it. When you’re in the lower grades a lot of the work is repetitive. I swear I tossed a whole box just of handwriting practice! Haha. I’m so thankful my parents did save stuff, but my old keepsakes literally filled my office closet from floor to ceiling before I purged, and it took me over a month just to clean them all out. So before you get started, keep this in mind – BE RUTHLESS! You only need to save a random sample of stuff from each grade! Now that you have that in the forefront of your mind (and you’re going to keep it in the forefront of your mind the entire time you work on this) let’s get started! The first thing you need to do is set up your keepsake boxes. I’m using ours for SCHOOL PAPERS ONLY. Non-school papers are going to be stored differently, but that’s another post for another day, which I hope to get to soon. ;o) Label the outside of the box (I labeled each box with the child’s name, and “School.”), and then hang your file folders in the box. Once your boxes are set up, now it’s time to plan out your categories. You should have one folder for each grade, plus some additional folders for report cards, awards, and other miscellaneous things. Your categories will look similar to mine, but there may be some slight differences depending on if your child went to daycare or pre-school or not. Our kids went to daycare so they started bringing artwork home at the age of one, so we have the folders starting from those first one-year-old classes. For each of these files below I save the class syllabus (which is at the front of the folder) and then I save a few random pieces from throughout the year – reading, math, and other school work, art work, special projects, etc. We have hanging folders for the following grades for school papers: Young Toddler Papers (age 1-1.5) Older Toddler Papers (age 1.5-2) Twos Papers Threes Papers Pre-K4 Papers Kindergarten Papers First Grade Papers Second Grade Papers Third Grade Papers Fourth Grade Papers Fifth Grade Papers Sixth Grade Papers Seventh Grade Papers Eighth Grade Papers Ninth Grade Papers Tenth Grade Papers Eleventh Grade Papers Twelfth Grade Papers College Year One Papers College Year Two Papers College Year Three Papers College Year Four Papers Then behind all of the school papers folders by grade, I also added the following hanging folders for all of the other school-related papers that were saved that were not school work itself: Grades – This hanging folder is divided into two folders, one for “Report Cards”, and one for “Test Scores.” The folder for “Report Cards” will contain every single report card that my children receive. Report cards are one thing that I do not throw out. The folder for “Test Scores” will contain results for the big annual tests that they take, SAT scores, etc. This folder is not for every day tests that they take in class. It is only for the big tests. Awards – This hanging file is divided into three folders, one for “Academic,” one for “Scholarships,” and one for “Sports.” I save every single award that my kids are presented with as well. Chances are they’ll actually care about seeing those more than they will their school work. Each type of award is filed in its respective folder based on the category it falls under. Keepsakes – This hanging file will contain everything else that does not fall into one of the other categories. I have many different things in this folder. I have a few of the “Eat, Sleep, and Poop” info sheets from when the kids were infants at daycare, I have a few of the “Incident Reports” from when they fell and scraped their knees, programs from their school concerts and events, their Kindergarten diplomas, and eventually this file will also hold programs from their high school graduations and high school diplomas and other things like that. School Pictures – This hanging file is also divided into three folders, one for “Individual,” one for “Class,” and one for “School Dances.” I may also have to add one for “Sports” down the road as well. The “Individual” folder contains all of their spring and fall and yearbook individual pictures, the “Class” folder contains all of their class pictures, and the “School Dances” folder contains all of their photos from school dances. Our school holds a Mother/Son dance and a Father/Daughter dance, and they always have a professional photographer, so all of those pictures will go in there. And eventually their Homecoming and Prom dance pictures will as well. Waaaahhhh! I don’t even want to think about that! Now that your categories are decided and your folders are ready, it’s time to organize those papers and get them in the boxes. Again, BE RUTHLESS. This box is going to be for your child’s entire school career (our boxes even include college) so you are going to really have to pare down what you save. I promise you that your kids will be thankful… they will NOT want to see every single assignment that they ever did. Nobody would ever have time to look at everything and nobody wants ten boxes of school papers lying around and taking up space either. If you feel bad about throwing stuff away, you could always snap a quick picture of each piece with your phone and create a digital folder as well. This is what both of my kids’ boxes currently look like… clearly I have some purging to do! The last thing I will be including in each of our kids’ boxes is a keepsake book from all of their teachers. I bought a copy of “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” for each of them when they were just babies, and I have had every single teacher sign it since they were infants. I will continue having every teacher sign it until high school graduation, and then we will give the books to them after graduation so they can read all of the sweet notes from their caretakers from their first eighteen years of life. If you haven’t started doing this, I urge you to. Jacob’s and Olivia’s teachers always think it’s the neatest idea when we ask them to sign their books at the end of each school year and they always write the sweetest little notes in there. It’s something that they will treasure forever. I just know it! Once the kids graduate from college, we will hand over their boxes so they can see everything that they accomplished during their entire school career! Random samples of their school work from every grade, as well as every single report card, test score, scholarship, award, keepsake, and school picture will be in there along with a book signed by every single teacher they ever had. How cool is that? Wouldn’t you love to have a wonderful time capsule like that?? And you wanna know how I know that this system will work? Because I made one for my entire school career! I went through aaaallll those boxes and saved a few things from each grade as well as all of my report cards, test scores, scholarships, awards, keepsakes, and school pictures. I only saved what I could fit in one box and everything else went in the recycling bin. I had so much stuff that I literally filled our four-foot tall recycling bin to the tippy top. TWICE. I now have every single thing that I actually want to see from my 18 years of school right here at my fingertips and it only takes up the space of one small box. Life, simplified! And while you’re organizing keepsakes, you might want to go ahead and organize newborn keepsakes as well… click here to see how I organized those… they are all saved in one tiny box! Good luck! And remember, if you want to follow along with me on my journey to simplify my entire life in 2018, you can do so HERE. I post updates in Instagram Stories frequently, and if you missed any of them, just click on the “Simplify” story highlight in my bio. They’re all there! If you like this post, you may also like these posts below! How to Create an Infant Keepsake Box How to Organize All of Your Child’s (Non-School) Keepsake Papers in Just One Box The Complete Guide to Organizing and Backing Up Digital and Non-Digital Photos, Videos, Music, and Other Files – Part 1 The Complete Guide to Organizing and Backing Up Digital and Non-Digital Photos, Videos, Music, and Other Files – Part 2
DIY Back to School Survival Kit
DIY Back to School Survival Kit | eBay Whether you or your kids are headed into middle school, high school, or college, there are a few key items they’ll need easy access to in order to survive the school year! I’m sharing all the tips for…
Make Your Own Kaleidoscopes
Make Your Own Kaleidoscopes – DIY Kaleidoscopes are such a fun kids craft! Make Your Own Kaleidoscopes
Keep your kids homework supplies organized with this hack!
Get ready for a clutter-free school year with this simple Dollar Store portable homework station and our free printable label! Back to… Get ready for a clutter-free school year with this simple Dollar Store portable homework station and these free printable labels!
Organizing Life for School
Organize Life For School More Coalition of Mavens – Find your maven
A Simple System for Organizing School Memorabilia
Learn about this simple system for organizing school memorabilia and download a set of school folder labels via Refined Rooms It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of those school keepsake papers…am I right? Here’s a simple system for organizing school memorabilia papers!
Study Time Table To Make Sure That You’re Revising Each of Your Subjects – A DIY Back to School Organization Hack for Kids and Teens of All Ages
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of those school keepsake papers…am I right? Here’s a simple system for organizing school memorabilia papers!
DIY Pencil Shoes
DIY Pencil Shoes, back to school shoes, teacher shoes, painted shoes DIY Pencil Shoes
Free Printable After School Checklist
Free Printable After School Checklist at artsyfartsymama.com Free Printable After School Checklist with 2 color options and one for using with the Minc!