Art Room Organization

I spent the first few days of summer completing OPERATION ORGANIZE the art room.

This process started a month ago with kids laminating all these super cute labels I got on Teachers Pay Teachers. Kids did the nitty gritty work of testing markers, sharpening colored pencils etc etc etc. The last week of school I shut down my regular lessons and created art centers (dough, building, legos, drawing) and just started sorting, closet by closet!

Why did it take so long? For three reasons

1. I inherited an art room filled to the brim with stuff from the 70's (must've been trucked from the old art room as this room was pretty new.)

2. I had a baby, finished my masters and teach 500 ++++ students a week with minimal plan time (things have been busy the last three years, really really busy.)

3. People bring me stuff. Loads of stuff.




I need someone to celebrate with me. Someone who understands why this took 1 week with kids in my room every hour + 2 days (with a three year old in toe) and 1 day all by myself (it was a vacation of sorts.)  Yippeeee I'm free!!!!

Well sort of (I brought home 4 boxes of lesson files to go through!)

My Scary Closet BEFORE

My scary Closet After (sort of) I still could use another day in there!

I'm so proud of my babies. . . each little cabinet is as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside.

Watercolors:) No more big bins, sorted by color and type.

 So yes, this was an epic feat! They really do pay teachers WAY too much;) LOL off to bring in the boxes of lesson files from my car. Going to spend my summer, organizing, editing and reimagining my lessons for next year.