A Well-Stocked School Supplies Cabinet

I've been trying to get all the last minute things done for our first week of school next week.  I'm actually really getting excited about starting back to school and at least some of my children are excited as well!

I've posted before about the wonderful cabinet that my sister-in-law gave to me over a year ago in a tour of our school room.  This cabinet is absolutely perfect for storing all of our school supplies.

I spent much of one late afternoon and evening organizing and re-stocking our school supplies cabinet.  I even got my boys to help me a bit by testing all of our dry-erase board markers.

If you, like me, enjoy school supplies - you'll enjoy this peek inside our school supplies cabinet!

On the very top shelf, there is a box of cardstock in various colors, a box of assorted notebooks (college-ruled, wide-ruled, grid paper, and tracing paper), and a box of folders and file folders.  On the next shelf are stored:

• a box of loose-leaf ruled notebook paper
• non-glare sheet protectors
• file folders in assorted colors
• hole punches in a mug
• scissors in a mug.

The next shelf stores many shades of colored paper, some large storage envelopes, and a box of lapbooks mini-book pieces that were not used in other lapbooks.

Below the paper shelf is the odds and ends shelf.  Stored in these four baskets are:

• tape (scotch, packing, masking)
• velcro dots
• magnet tape
• big rubber bands, regular size rubber bands
• multiplication flash cards
• books of the bible flash cards
• erasers
• large letter templates
• medium binder clips
• bingo chips
• push pins
• unwrapped crayons
• wood markers
• flip-chart Sharpie markers
• construction paper crayons
• Dymo Organizer Xpress and refill
• brass plated fasteners
• staples
• white thin ribbon
• book rings
• protactor
• compass
• staple remover
• large and small index cards in both white and colors, ruled and unruled.

On the bottom two shelves are stored index cards boxes, glue, crayons, a stapler, long-reach stapler, comb binder, and comb binding.  I also made some space on one shelf to store some paperwork for our work together like lapbook pieces.

The very bottom of this fabulous organizer holds 14 removable baskets which I have labeled with the contents.  The 14 bins hold:

• pencils (2)
• pens
• watercolors
• colored pencils
• highlighters
• rulers
• sharpies
• big scented markers
• big markers
• thin markers
• glue sticks
• tape runners
• punches (circle, square, heart, hexagon).

So, that was a peek inside our school supplies cabinet.  Once more, thanks go out to my darling sister-in-law who so thoughtfully purchased this for us for $5.00!