Dear Sis,

Our homeschool corner functions well, but the annex for the craft supplies wasn’t quite cutting it anymore. They plastic drawers were always getting stuck or falling out onto the floor. I’ve been thinking for a long time about how to make a kid friendly art corner!

Step one was relocating the piano from the corner to in front of the widows, which we actually did way back on the 3rd.

Another fringe benefit of moving the piano in front of the windows: protecting the blinds for our resident blind butcher, baby sister! 

We got a cheap walmart bookshelf for less than $30.00 and two more cube storage bins. Happily we were able to source the rest of the organizing containers from our home. Perhaps our best storage epiphany was using my old utensil holder for pipe cleaners! The kids helped along that way. Peeling label backs, moving wiggly eyes to a new container, etc. 

We placed a standing lamp in the corner for good light for our tiny artists! Historically, we’ve always kept our child sized table near our toy kitchen because it allows multiple kids to play in the space better. We’ve maintained that function plus brought it closer to our art supplies!

It came out perfect and $10 under the $50 budget I set for the project!

Papa Jeff stopped by on his way to work. The kids got to open their holiday gifts from him… ART SUPPLIES! They were easy to put away, but not before the kids tried out the finger paints.

William loves the squish of finger paints, poor Charlotte was trying them for the first time and was quite repulsed. I gave her a brush and she was much happier:)

Love,

b