We enjoy our art and crafty activities and have accumulated a nice little supply of various items.
I have noticed over the past few months that our art has progressed, we are no longer in that little kid zone, with all of its delightfully fun messiness!
However, every time we want to draw or work on an art project we have to go hunting for all of the supplies. Most often they are all fairly close to each other but at other times they aren't.
I really wanted to remedy that issue so that art became an enjoyable part of our day, not one where we couldn't find the supplies we needed because they weren't put back where they should've been.
Introducing our new Art Supply Caddy, isn't she grand! I had first gone to find a fisher men's tackle box but after realising that the only ones that would suit what I wanted were going to cost me well over $100 I quickly let go of that idea.
This is actually sold as a sewing supply box and I found it in Lincraft, they have a smaller version and I did spend a bit of time contemplating. Now that it is full I'm so glad I grabbed the bigger one.
This is completely portable, with a handle, it also has three layers with the top able to be used independently from the bottom two.
Down in the bottom, the main deeper area we have our paints, spare oil pastels, chalk pastels and palettes.
On top of that sits a tray, which has a handle for easy lifting in and out. Here we have our paint brushes and pens, glitter pens, gel pens, paint brush markers and various other coloured markers.
As you can see in this image there are also large white pull up handles so we can carry this part of the box around if someone else is using the next layer.
The top of caddy is clear, has carry a handle to pick the entire container up and houses two separate, snap lock sides. This one we keep pencils, coloured, water colour pencils and our paper stubs. The whole top piece then also snap locks on the caddy itself.
Across on the other side of the top compartment are sketch pencils, charcoal pencils, erasers, sharpeners and our 'in use' oil pastels.
One the best things I love about this tub is that it is so simple to take our art away with us. Whenever we go away, even for just a weekend I always take art supplies, now all I need to do is grab our caddy and visual art diary's and we're off!
Brilliant idea! I am attempting to clear out books at the moment to make some space. My next project is to organise our art supplies. We have so many but they are all over the place in little boxes and drawers here there and everywhere! My goal is to get them stored in one go-to place, just like you have done!
I've had this saved in my reader for months, and I'm glad I did, because it's giving me some great ideas for our art supplies.