DIY Art Caddy from an Old Beverage Crate (Home School Organization)

DIY Art Caddy from an Old Beverage Crate - Back to Basics and Back to School

Sharing an Easy DIY for to transform an old wooden beverage crate into a DIY Art Caddy to keep ALL your kids art supplies & pencils organized when doing homework, virtually schooling or homeschooling.

Can you believe it’s almost time for school to start?  

With 4 kids ranging from elementary school to high school we have a lot of school & art projects going on at our house. 

We will soon be in the throes of world map coloring, math cube circling and my personal favorite… create a giant president project. 

Although I kept most of our art supplies organized they were stored in 8, (EIGHT) different containers in 2 different rooms which could get a little crazy when we would lose track of where one container was.  

For even more back to school & organization ideas be sure to check out my friend’s ideas below as part of a monthly décor challenge called Back to Basics.

DIY Art Caddy from an Old Beverage Crate (Home School Organization)

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Sharing an Easy DIY for to transform an old wooden beverage crate into a DIY Art Caddy to keep ALL your kids art supplies & pencils organized when doing homework, virtually schooling or home school. #homeschool #homeschoolorganization #classroommanagement https://lehmanlane.net.

Supplies Needed to Create a DIY Art Caddy

  • wooden beverage crate with handles
  • empty plastic water bottles
  • scissors

Instructions for How to Create a DIY Art Caddy

A close friend found this awesome retro Coke beverage crate at an estate sale she was helping with for just $20! 

I had been on the hunt for an old beverage crate for a few years now and was very excited to finally have one to decorate with. 

Although this crate has seen better days I love that it still has some of the original paint showing through.

DIY Art Caddy from an Old Beverage Crate - Back to Basics and Back to School - empty crate

The old coke bottle sections are the perfect size for dividing all the different pencils, markers, glue, scissors, highlighters, colored pencils & art supplies. 

Because there are some openings in the bottom of the wood I needed to find a way to keep the colored pencils & crayons from falling out the bottom of the crate without taking away from the history of the wooden crate.

DIY Art Caddy from an Old Beverage Crate - Back to Basics and Back to School - bottom of crate

Use Water Bottles to Keep Art Supplies Organized

My solution, water bottles.

DIY Art Caddy from an Old Beverage Crate - Back to Basics and Back to School - cutting water bottles

I cut the water bottles in half & they were the perfect size for the original bottle compartments.

DIY Art Caddy from an Old Beverage Crate - Back to Basics and Back to School - water bottle in half

After I had drank & cut enough water bottles to fill every compartment I had WAY too much fun sharpening & color organizing our art supplies.

DIY Art Caddy from an Old Beverage Crate - Back to Basics and Back to School

I just love how all the colored pencils, scissors, pens & glue sticks look inside the crate.

DIY Art Caddy from an Old Beverage Crate - Back to Basics and Back to School - color divided art supplies
DIY Art Caddy from an Old Beverage Crate - Back to Basics and Back to School - wooden coke crate

Our new DIY Art Caddy looks great on our kitchen table & the handles on it are super easy to move the beverage crate off our kitchen table when it is time to eat :).

DIY Art Caddy from an Old Beverage Crate - Back to Basics and Back to School - farmhouse kitchen

If you are looking for a caddy for art supplies, I hope you will give my beverage crate turned DIY art caddy a try!

It really has held up the last few years with my 4 kids & especially now that they are doing all their schooling from home.

by Tara Lehman

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DIY Art Caddy from an Old Beverage Crate - Back to Basics and Back to School - coke crate

Back to Basics – Organization & Back to School Ideas

Scroll down to see all the Back to school Ideas my friends are sharing.

Thanks so much to Vicki and Jenn from 2 Bees in a Pod & Coco from at The Crowned Goat for hosting this challenge.

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Comments

  1. Tara this is so awesome! I can’t believe you guys got this for such a steal. I love how you repurposed it into such a fun way to display art supplies. And that bottle idea, so genius! Hugs, CoCo

  2. Tara,
    I love how you transformed an old coke bottle crate into a pencil organizer! I have a similar organizer that I love too. Although my son had literally 4 pairs of scissors in his room! I kept buying more since I thought we didn’t have any!

    1. Thanks so much for stopping by to see our new art caddy Janine! I have had the same problem with buying things we already had! I am hoping hat keeping all of our art supplies together in one room will help solve that problem 🙂

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