Storage for Homeschool Supplies You'll Love

We are in the middle of a kitchen reno after moving and everything is getting a facelift, including my table box that my husband made me a few years ago. Now instead of beat-up painted jars that were catch-all jars, I have pretty painted jars that are storage for homeschool supplies.

Storage for Homeschool Supplies You’ll Love

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This was a simple up-cycle, reuse project. We have an eat-in kitchen and the dining room table is where we do the majority of our lessons. I have a warm, inviting pale pale yellow with white wainscot on the walls, with grey cupboards. I wanted to use more grey at the eat-in side of the kitchen and this was the perfect place to do it.

What I used:

old jars – I used tall salsa jars
paint – color of your choice
twine

What you need:

hot glue gun
hot glue gun sticks
paint brush
plastic flowers of you choice – I got mine from the Dollarama.

What I did to make these decorative storage jars:

I painted my jars outside because the day was perfect, nice and sunny warm, making the paint dry fast. Painting on glass, in my experience, is not easy. I did I quick coat over each of the four jars and let it dry. I did not paint the very top where I was going to be gluing the twine.

The next coat I cheated a bit on, I only painted down as far as I needed, to where the box would hide the rest. I just did a quick and let it dry until the next day.

Using my hot glue gun I wrapped and glued the twine around the top of the jar. My fingertips were sore by the time I finished all four jars.