I don’t know about you, but I never seem to have enough storage in my classroom for all the therapy odds and ends I seem to make and/or collect! I have a hard time keeping all my cards and TpT items together, and decided to find a better way to organize them.
I started with four sets of these white plastic drawers.
Sure, these drawers are perfectly serviceable as is, but I wanted to have them match the rest of my classroom, while also hiding the contents from my students’ view. Time to break out the spray paint! Pro tip: Use plastic primer spray paint before painting with a color. This makes the finished result much nicer and less cheap plastic-y looking.
While the main color in my classroom is green, I decided to go with an accent color of aqua. This color just makes me happy! (And I bought too much, so I have a whole can left over… Oh, the possibilities!)
Here’s what it looks like after paint:
Next, I needed to choose a scrapbook paper for the drawer fronts. While my favorite choice is the green and blue on the far right, I knew that I wanted to label each drawer, and that pattern is too busy to see the label clearly.
The glue dots ended up working well!
Next, I made some labels on my computer for each drawer. I could have written them on with a permanent marker, but I can never line up my handwriting quite right, and it never looks very good. Plus, the labels will come off (with a bit of persuasion) if I need to change them.
I placed one on each drawer front. Here’s the finished product! What do you think?
The whole transformation:
Hi Ms. Natalie,
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for posting this😁😁 the drawers came out so beautifully 😊😊😊 2 questions: 1st-Did you place the paper inside the drawer or outside the drawer?
2nd: did you use clear labels?
You have definitely inspired me to give my drawers a revamp😁😁😁
Hi, Vanessa! I put the paper on the inside of the drawers and secured it with double sided tape. I then used printable clear address labels to label what was in each drawer. I hope that helps!