The Boy has always loved doing craft, and rightly so. I'm a crafty sew and sew, and love making things, so it's only natural that he should. It's good for him as he develops his hand-eye co-ordination and fine motor skills through crafting, there's sensory development in there, pre-writing skills, pre-maths skills, as well as being plain, old-fashioned fun!
The only problem is that, like many households all over the land, I am ending up with small bags and tubs of craft equipment littering the house. The piano top has a pile of paintings etc. alongside cellophane bags of googly eyes and pompoms. I need it to be more organised!
Which is when I remembered what one of the mums in my toddler group said about a year ago at a coffee session. She'd made some Mister Maker drawers. So, thanks to Crafty-Hands-On Mum, we popped to Ikea this weekend and invested in some small wooden drawers, paint and varnish. Incidentally, their children's paint is excellent because it's the only one I've come across that doesn't stain our hands, including the red or blue!
Here's our Mister Maker drawers in a simple photo story:
And here are our Mister Maker drawers, all small bits and pieces neatly organised in a fun, cheap and crafty way!
What do you think?
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LOVE it! Looks like so much fun too!!!
Clever you. 🙂
Maggy
He had a brilliant time making it, such good fun and now we're all organised too.
Oh my goodness wow!!
I want a set of drawers like that! You could make them and sell them!
Well done you two xx
They were really easy to do, give it a try.
They look fab!! Looks like the boy had fun making them too.
Xx
Love, love, love them!
That is so cool. I'm wondering if I could make a grown up version too….hmmm 😉
Oh yes do it! I'd love to see them.
They are fab, well done
They look even better than Mister Maker's Doodle Drawers 🙂
Definitely, although The Boy did think that it meant Mister Maker was coming to do craft with him :-/
What a brilliant idea. They look fantastic!
Thanks, we had great fun making them.
The look fabulous. Wish there was an Ikea close to us..
It's useful for so many simple resources. I do some of my food shopping there too!
this looks great…well done The Boy…left hander?
Without a shadow of a doubt! No idea where it's come from, none of the rest of his family is!
Love this, it looks great. x
I hope you've got a Square, Circle, Triangle & Rectangle that jump out of those drawers & start singing from time to time!
(I love the I am a shape song a bit too much)
That would make The Boy's life if we had that!
wow! well done to the boy for his crafty creation!!! looks good too, the drawer with the chocolate coins is my favourite!
THAT is ruddy awesome! wow i love it and may have to 'borrow' that idea although i hardly ever get to visit Ikea so could be some time until it happens! They look so professional – well done that boy x
What a fabulous idea. And so multi-sensual. Thanks for linking to Parentonomy.