Marker Storage and Organization

Sometimes we need to get things out and organized in order to use them.  It may be all neat and tidy, stored away in their own little boxes in the cabinet, but then we never actually use these things.  What is the point of owning all of this stuff if we don't use it!!!

When I saw my daughter with all these separate packages of markers that she had to go to the closet, and get out the storage bin to get to and then pick up each one to find the right color and then reidentify where it belonged to put it away I decided that we needed a marker rack.  Of coarse we are trying not to buy MORE STUFF...what to do....MAKE ONE!  out of scraps!

Here's the tutorial on how to make one of your own!  If you don't have a lot of wood tools, i think that the foam board from the dollar store would work just fine as long as you are not rough on it.  I should really remake this, but likely won't any time soon, there are just too many projects and this will work great.  Perhaps you can learn from my mistakes :) and make some improvements.

1.  I selected a piece of scrap, I used 1/4 inch hardwood ply but you could use a 3/4 piece of whatever you have around, I wanted to keep it light weight.

2.  I then made evenly spaced marks where I wanted to place the markers, I kept them apart a bit to make it easy to grasp and replace each one.  You can certainly place them closer together

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