This was our drawing pens box;
all the pens, pencils, crayons were in one ice cream tub. After the recent 'mark making to writing' session, I have now spilt them
(crayons are now in the box labelled crayons, by the way!)
so, we have 1 for pens and 1 for crayons and I made a 3rd for pencils. all the spares are out of the way.
The session was great (I've already bleated-on in a previous post) and it gave me lots of ideas. One thing the trainer said is "less is more", so 1 colour of each pen, that works!, in a pot, is more inviting to a child than the big mixed box - unsharpened pencils, pens that don't work and broken crayons do not encourage little hands.Oh, and 1 pair of (child's) scissors is all that is needed. I check the pots weekly and sharpen pencils and remove any broken pens or crayons - i've kept the broken crayons as I've seen a few posts on Pinterest about melting them into new ones.
The felt pens pot - I made it as a cutlery holder for a Dino Dig party we had last year. Took yonks to make! (made from a baked bean tin, covered with paper mache and then painted green)
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