Art Supplies
Organizing my space helps me be ready and prepared for any last minute supplies or projects my children want to create. I have strategically placed paper and other pre-approved art supplies within arms reach of my girls.
My oldest will often use water color paints so I ensure she can also reach the collapsable plastic water cups, paint brushes, and paper.
As the school year progresses and we add more supplies to our art corner, it can be a challenge to keep it all organized. That area in our laundry room could definitely use a refresh now that the school year is coming to an end.
Last Year (2025) I tackled two areas in our house, since the toys needed to be moved out of the laundry room to allow more space for our supplies. It really set us up for success this last school year.
Related: Organizational Projects: Arts & Crafts, Toy Storage.
Homeschool Planning
For myself, I like to map out each week of school since our week is constantly changing due to events, play-dates and appointments. I first fill in our social activities, and then work our curriculum around that.
Homemade
In the past I made simple monthly overviews and weekly detailed spreads on Pages and then printed them out. This helped me visualize my week and help me follow my preferred daily rhythm. Planning out at least one week at a time helped me prepare crafts and purchase supplies if needed.
Related: I found some wonderful examples of a family daily rhythm at Treehouse School House. Check out our routine from 2025/2026 (link coming)
Purchased Planner
This last school year (2025/2026), I purchased and printed the Homeschool Planner found at Treehouse School House. I loved all her organizational pages, of which I used the majority of. Personally I only wanted to record school related things. Other planners offer meal planning, habit tracking, and prayer requests – such as the one from Brighter Day Press.
Although the curriculum I chose included their own weekly lesson plans, I enjoyed writing each week by hand, adding in events, and creating sections for each of my children.
Most Fridays I wrote the next week's schedule with Sunday evenings being my prep day - gathering supplies, switching out books, preparing morning menus.
Related: Next school (LINK coming) year I have prepared and printed my own planner – very simple and nothing fancy.
Containers
I love keeping all my teaching things together. I utilize a basket by my dinning room chair to store my planner and any morning read aloud books we are currently enjoying.
Related: 2025/2026 Family Read Aloud Books (link coming)
My mom found a 4 drawer tower on wheels for free and passed it my way. I turned it into our homeschool center. Placed on top of the drawers, a basket full of my most used "teacher supplies" is easily within reach.
Related: This storage basket has come in handy.
In the drawers themselves, I have placed all the girl's curriculum and their many supplies. The top drawer is pencils, scissors, glue, white board markers etc. Next in another shallow drawer are thinner workbooks for my second child along with card games she likes to place - specially Uno and Go Fish Alphabet. In the third drawer I have stashed the many supplies needed for math and reading – Phonogram cards, easy readers, game pieces for math etc. Finally in the bottom drawer, I have stacked my eldest daughter's larger workbooks for math, reading, and cursive.
Related: Check out Our Back To School curriculum and choices from the last three years.
Anything that I don't immediately need for teaching the curriculum is stashed in the laundry room – such as dry erase pockets, drawing books, math manipulative. End of the Year Binders and curriculum from previous years are organized upstairs in a closet that I use to store various things: wrapping paper and present bags, blank journals, old Christmas cards, electronics...
Related: How to make an End of the Year Binder
Every so often I need to reevaluate my space and shuffle things around a bit, but for now things are fitting neatly. I'm sure I will need to reorganize when all the new school supplies start pouring in.
Related: What's on My School Supply List (link coming soon)
