Comments on: Nurture Your Kids’ Creativity & Independence With an Art Box

By: Organizing Your Way | Organizing Children’s Craft Supplies: Creating an Art Box to Simplify Craft Time

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:40:28 +0000

[...] first heard about the idea of an art box from a guest post written by Amanda from Kiddio at Simple Mom. It took me longer to implement than [...]

By: bombaygirl

bombaygirl — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:21:45 +0000

This reminds me of my art box in college! We carried them around from art class to art class! I completely forgot about that as a possibility for my kids. Great idea. bombaygirl´s last blog post...Hello?

By: a bowl of moss & pebbles » cultivating a childhood of creativity

a bowl of moss & pebbles » cultivating a childhood of creativity — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:42:30 +0000

[...] had us keep each of our supplies in shoe boxes; one for embroidery, one for crochet…(Click here for a great post on art boxes!). When Mom would read aloud to us, or Dad was leading family [...]

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:07:39 +0000

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I have used old Caboodle boxes, aka make-up organizers from the 80’s!

By: DearSportsMom

DearSportsMom — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:44:05 +0000

Oops! I accidentally replied to Mary instead of adding a comment earlier. Just not multi-tasking very well that day. lol

This craft box idea reminds me of the fun I had putting together a Christmas gift for my daughter when she loved sculpting things. I bought a craft supply box; then I filled it with lots of small packages of colored clay and a variety of tools for shaping and scraping. It was also a nice way to keep the messy side of clay under control.

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By: Vintage Mommy

Vintage Mommy — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:49:55 +0000

We have an “activity backpack” that stays in the car and goes into restaurants with us. Of course we hardly ever go anywhere where they don’t provide crayons and a coloring sheet – how sad!

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By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:08:40 +0000

This is an awesome idea, something to keep in the van. There have been so many times I wished I had brought something for my daughter to do once we got somewhere. Michelle's last blog post...Sewing Lessons

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:26:45 +0000

I love this idea! Thanks for sharing.

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By: bee

bee — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:01:09 +0000

I started an art box for my 2 year-old because my mother bought him his own pair of scissors (for a 2 year-old? Gasp! I know!) and I needed to have a way to contain his use of them. So I created his very own art box. It’s just a rubbermaid storage container, with some smaller containers in there for his colored pencils and scissors and glue, etc. It mostly has just construction paper, stickers and random scraps of paper that I think he might enjoy. I’ve also decided to add any ads and articles from catalogs or my various parenting magazines that contain pictures of his favorite characters before I recycle them. I figure he’ll like cutting those out. I also found an extra cutting mat that my husband doesn’t use much and put that in there. It provides a “hard” surface to work on while on the carpet.

As he gets older, I’m sure we start transitioning to something a little more portable… I have a “vintage” Caboodle that would work great!

By: Brooke

Brooke — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:29:07 +0000

What a great idea! I know what my daughter is getting for Christmas this year! Brooke's last blog post...The Reading Corner: Falling Leaves