Does your kitchen look like this? Yeah? Well then go away, obviously we can’t be friends.
Mine looks like this:
Since the oldest has started Kindergarten my kitchen island has been taken over by the paper-pile monster. Homework sheets, flyers, permission slips, art projects, bills. You name it. I’ve tried to organize these papers in baskets but then they overflow and I get more baskets and then the paper-pile monster is eaten by basket monsters.
I bought 4 clipboards for a dollar each at Amazon and 12”x12” decorative paper at Blick. Grand total for all materials for 4 clipboards is under $10. Warning if you choose to turn this post into a drinking game and drink every time you read the word ‘clip’ you’ll be wasted by the end.
I traced and cut the paper using the clip board as my template. Using a chip-clip I clipped the clipboard (say that 10 times fast) so it was in the open position. Then I painted on a coat of Modge-Podge and carefully laid the paper over it, smoothing out the wrinkles. I topped it with 2 coats of Modge-Podge to seal it and let it dry overnight.
They're hanging above the hooks for the kids' backpacks. Paper gets unloaded from their backpacks and are either trashed or clipped to each kid's board.
That’s it. It is that simple and pretty impossible to screw up. Now each kid has a clip{take a drink}board to hold their school papers and I have a clean(er) island!
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Since the oldest has started Kindergarten my kitchen island has been taken over by the paper-pile monster. Homework sheets, flyers, permission slips, art projects, bills. You name it. I’ve tried to organize these papers in baskets but then they overflow and I get more baskets and then the paper-pile monster is eaten by basket monsters.
I bought 4 clipboards for a dollar each at Amazon and 12”x12” decorative paper at Blick. Grand total for all materials for 4 clipboards is under $10. Warning if you choose to turn this post into a drinking game and drink every time you read the word ‘clip’ you’ll be wasted by the end.
I traced and cut the paper using the clip board as my template. Using a chip-clip I clipped the clipboard (say that 10 times fast) so it was in the open position. Then I painted on a coat of Modge-Podge and carefully laid the paper over it, smoothing out the wrinkles. I topped it with 2 coats of Modge-Podge to seal it and let it dry overnight.
They're hanging above the hooks for the kids' backpacks. Paper gets unloaded from their backpacks and are either trashed or clipped to each kid's board.
That’s it. It is that simple and pretty impossible to screw up. Now each kid has a clip{take a drink}board to hold their school papers and I have a clean(er) island!
Meg,
ReplyDeleteSo how come there are four clipboards? One for Sean?
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