DIY: My Toddler's Arts and Crafts Corner Space

This space has had a long time (a year of procrastination) coming! I am finally finished with it and I love the way it looks, but best thing of ALL... so does my son.

HERE IT GOES

I started this space for my two year toddler, at the time, he is now three. There was this empty corner in my office that had nothing in it, and I thought... this would be a perfect space for my son to have a place in my office. And that's how that journey started! I started to look for DIY's on my go-to website Ana-White.com, she has the best tutorials! Of course, I found a couple. The first one I used was Easy Ruler Clip Art Holder.

The second one was Arts And Craft Play Table. I followed the measurements exactly, except for the table dividers, I used my own.

Things I put in my son's arts and crafts table (just to give you some ideas):

• Crayola finger paint
• Crayola water paint & paint brushes
• Foam picture frames
• Crayons and pencil colors
• Glue and scissors
• Tracing rulers and stickers

The third tutorial I used was Flip Down Wall Art Desk (I ended up not doing this exactly how the tutorial intended, I had other plans).

All I used from the tutorial is the measurements for the shelves and the roll holder! It worked great for us because my son can just roll down the paper (like the pictures shown below) onto his table and color. He LOVES it! He also has easy access to his coloring books.

I'm so happy with finally finishing this project and that my son now gets to enjoy it!

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DIY: Easy Ruler Clip Art Holder

A while ago I decided I wanted to create an arts and craft space for my creative toddler in my office/craft space. Well, I finally got some time to make it happen! I will sharing that space in a different post because it is not quite finished it. I have to finish it before I post about it.... :) Well, anyway.... I had a pinned a pin on pinterest about a cute way of displaying art from a post on ana-white.com. I pinned and never looked back, until recently. I wanted to show you all my results and now easy it was! I basically used all of Ana's idea and changed it a bit. I think my way is a bit easier and in my opinion cuter!

Supplies:

• (1) yard stick
• (1) pack of wood clothespins
• (1) set of acrylic paint
• (1) hot glue gun
• (2) wood nails
• (1) hammer

The first thing I did was measure the wall where I wanted to put the ruler. The space I'm using for my son is in the corner and it was around 30 inches so I had to saw off a couple of inches off the yardstick for it to fit on my wall. If you are putting this in a space longer than a yard, you can skip this step.

Next, measure where you want to put the clothespins on the ruler. I put my first pin on the middle of inch 2, the rest I put them 3 inches apart, and the last one was on the middle of inch 26 (remember my ruler is only 28 inches). I used 9 clothespins on my project. After you have all that information, gather your supplies to paint your clothespins. I used normal size wood clothespins. I couldn't find the jumbo clothes pins that Ana used on hers, but it's okay... I actually like the smaller ones better. :)

Then, take apart the clothespins you are using like I have shown in the picture above. Don't forget to paint the front, the back, and the sides.

I mixed some of the colors around to get extra colors because I only used 6 of colors on my small acrylic set. 

Let it dry.

Put the clothespins back together and use your hot glue to put them on the ruler. I put my clothespins facing down and up so I could put smaller things on the top. Let it sit for a couple of minutes, then nail directly to the wall. And you are done! How cute?!

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