Art Organization: Take 1!

It's that time of year again.  School is here!  I find myself at first dreading it...dreading all the preparation, but then I walk into my classroom and then all the ideas start flowing! I begin getting more and more excited about what I can prepare and more and more excited about the students I'll have.

Then there's my list of things that I want to do before school starts.  Of course I have my summer list that I created,  and have worked on...a little.  But, it never fails, (in my 2 going on 3 whole years now) as I'm working I come up with many other projects to do as well.  Funny how those get done faster :)

Anyways, here is the 1st of my last minute, but I think the best projects:

These jars are going to hold different clay tools. 

Here is where they are now...I took the picture after I took them all out, but you can imagine all  the tools on the right just randomly placed in that drawer. You can see I started to organize them with the white holder, but never finished. That's what happens when school starts :) 

So I took them all out, washed them, which was much needed...going to work on teaching that better this year...& then let them dry. 

Here they are in their new spot labeled and all. Now I 1st just took scrap paper and wrapped them connecting them with tape.  But then I thought about how somewhat wet tools will be going back into them and realized my paper would not last.  Granted it's extra scrap paper that needed to be used, but I didn't really want to redo this every summer...I mean I'll have other new projects to work on :) So 1st I added the Avery label on the paper while it was still on the jar:

Then, I took the tape off, removed the paper and ran all of them through my cold laminator.  That way, hopefully, if it gets wet, it'll last a little longer.  But I made sure to stick the label on first, b/c I didn't want to replace that each time so I laminated them both together! :) 

Then I re-attached them.  You can see after I went back to school, I needed to make more anyway.  Hopefully, this will keep the tools neat & tidy, and able to air dry!