What Would Carrie Craft?: Classroom Redo

Another project that has been coming together and isn't very crafty are my supply bins for tables. In the past I have used school boxes to hold pencils, crayons, and markers at each table for student use. This past Spring I caught a great sale at the Target $ Spot on metal tins in Lime Green and Silver. So I think I ended up getting about 15 total. Since then I have been looking for just the right plate, platter, or other open bin to attach these tins to. I originally was thinking a long rectangular plate, like a sushi plate, but these were too expensive when you need 4 or 5. Then I was thinking maybe I could get a round plastic plate from the summer selections then I would just glue the bins to the plate to ensure that they didn't go anywhere. No such luck. Everything I found seemed SO BIG! Not to mention Expensive!

Today at IKEA I struck gold, well almost. I saw a display in an office room setup of these beautiful white plastic bins and they were $3.99 a piece. SCORE! I forgot my tins at home, so I was eyeballing whether they would fit. Well these little bins proved more difficult to find in the Marketplace than I expected. I had to get someone to help me (She was AWESOME BTW!) and even then it was difficult. I ended up with 2 display bins that had sharpie marker on the bottom, like I care that part will be covered. =)

I got my 5 bins home and they were PERFECT, well almost.

I wanted to put 3 tins in a bin.....well they don't quite fit. Another .25" in any direction and I would have been fine. I can cram them in there but it looks sloppy!