It’s the New Year and everyone is on a wellness kick and that includes being organized. Here is a fun and easy eco-friendly craft for kids that will help keep your children’s art supplies tidy. Today, we are making a juice carton desk organizer from inhabitots.com. This is a great craft you can do with the kids on a cold, snowy winter day and it provides a dual incentive to help the kids stay more organized.  Now let’s get crafting.

Image Credit: inhabitots.com

Supplies:

• empty juice carton (substitute with milk cartons)

• craft knife (X-Acto knife)

• recycled twine

• hole punch

• your child’s art supplies

Directions:

1. Thoroughly wash and dry the inside and outside of the orange juice container. Use your craft knife to cut a large flap on the front of the carton. Then, repeat on the opposite side. Fold the edge of the flaps so they easily open and close.

2. Use your hole punch to punch several holes down the middle of the carton (in between the flaps). You can make as many rows and holes to accommodate the number of colored pencils that you have.

3. Punch a hole in the center of each of the flaps that you created in step 1. Tie a small twine loop for opening and closing the flaps.

4. At the top of the organizer (opposite the spout), cut a large hole to hold a glue stick. You could also put crayons in the hole or another small art supply.

5. Have your child add the colored pencils to the holes in the center of the organizer. We pointed our pencils down to prevent anyone from accidentally getting poked with the pencils.

6. Fill the two side compartments with an assortment of art supplies. We stacked large chunky crayons in one side and lined up large and small markers on the other side.

You can view a step by step image gallery for this eco-friendly craft at inhabitots.com.

One of the best aspects of this art supply desk organizer is that you can make it with everything you have in the house. If you have enough art supplies you could even make one for each child. Another fun step to get the kids involved with this eco-friendly craft is letting them decorate it before you put anything in it. Just think how lovely it would look painted their favorite colour, covered in stickers, or a collage of favorite things that they cut out of magazines. If you do not have an orange juice carton you could substitute it with a milk carton of the same size.

Perhaps after completing this eco-friendly craft, your kids will have renewed interest in keeping organized. Remember that when making any craft, children should always be supervised. So try this creative, green craft and help make your New Year a little bit more organized.
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