Back to School Centerpieces

Class has begun and it’s time to get back in the groove of things. I’m sure your children got home from their first day of school and went down for a nap. Teachers generally don’t load students up on homework the first week so it’s a good time to prepare for what is to come.

I have found that when the kids sit down to do the evening’s homework, they tend to lay out every imaginable school material across their work space. A fun way to decorate and organize children’s designated homework area is to be creative with vases, jars, bowls and trays. Place the crayons, colored pencils and/or markers in one of the jars, glue sticks in a bowl, erasers and pencils in another tray and build some sort of organized centerpiece.

You can add other useful art supplies like paint, paintbrushes and oil pastels for future class projects. The simplest way to keep the children’s areas clean is to use disposable plastic table covers or paper tablecloths since they can easily be removed and refreshed. Bottom line is that with an organized supply holder that can be easily spun and re-organized, a mess may stay away longer during the months to come.