Wednesday 6 March 2013

6 pack beer box organizer

Have you seen the Pinterest idea of using a shoe box to organize art supplies  Very useful for teachers to organize markers, scissors, glue sticks or anything else you can think of.  Great for groups of students or for the whole class.  
I WAS going to try that pin out, but discovered something i think is even better than a shoebox. 
Beer Mix and Match six pack boxes.  Yes, it can be just as fun to collect the filled boxes and empty them for the project!
My husband had a boys night and the next morning staring at all the boxes, i knew i had to do something with them.  I remembered that pin, and thought these boxes would work better.  
Why?
-because it has a handle to carry, the shoe box does not
-more space for bigger items, or to hold more items.
-it can fit Tim Hortons cups which are more durable than toilet paper rolls.  It can also fit most other plastic cups as well.  I used Tim Horton cups for the demo.  Have a ton from a breakfast party we hosted.

I did not take any pics of the process.  I honestly feel weird even writing out the steps, it is super basic as...
1) Get an empty 6 pack beer box (the mix and match box was the best of the bunch)
2) Cover it up to hide the beer logo.  In the Mix & Match box you really only need to hide the top part as that has a pic of a glass of beer.
*I went super simple and just used colored duck tape to cover it up.*  You can make it look more fancy.  They even have fancy decorated duck tape at Targets, so you can try that as well. 
3) Fill up the 6 spaces with the Tim Hortons cup.

Easy, Peasy.  You could literally do this with no problem at all if you had drank that 6 pack right before....but i am not suggesting doing that.  



Holds so much more than the shoe boxes.


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