Keep Your Craft Room Clutter-Free With An Easy Dollar Tree Organization Hack

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Most of the time, when you're buying an item to use as storage, it's helpful for it to be labeled. Take the plastic book bins from the Dollar Tree. If you have lots of books, they're easily organized and put away if you own a few of these bad boys. And as it turns out, Dollar Tree book bins also make excellent storage units for craft and craft-related supplies.

At 11.75 inches by 8.62 inches, the Dollar Tree's book bins are pretty roomy. Here's what we mean. If you're trying to store your books without a bookshelf, you'll have both the length and the width to accommodate most books with these bins. For example, the most popular coloring book size measures 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Other books, like craft and textbooks, range in size, from 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches to 7 inches by 10 inches.

Additionally, the measurements of the book bins are large enough to stash items like soft packs of Ohuhu brush markers for coloring books and journaling. They'll also hold multiple packs of Amazon Basics Colored Pencils in a single bin. If you're a painter, you'll find the bins roomy enough for your assort paint brushes as well, and if you'd like to separate them within the bins, at 4.5 inches wide, you should have enough room to fit a couple of jars that measure around 4 inches across or less. This allows you to separate your paint brushes, pencils, and other small items in individual compartments within the bins.

To update your home crafts studio and to make classifying your item types easier, consider color coding them. The regular Dollar Tree book bins come in black and white. However, the Teaching Tree brand book bins – still available at select Dollar Tree locations – come in pink, blue, green, and purple. When you're organizing different types of items, assign each one a color. For example, all coloring books could be in black bins. Earmark the pink ones for all knitting supplies. Buy some blue book bins for your painting kits. You get the idea. You can expand on the idea even further by dedicating specific shelves in your bookcase to each color, just as they would do in some libraries. This organizational hack gives you an at-a-glance look at each category, allowing you to quickly find what you're looking for.

Finally, if you're trying to make the whole system mobile and maximize storage space in a small home, skip putting the book bins on shelves. Instead, opt for a three-tier rolling cart from the danpinera Store on Amazon, or something like it, and place your Dollar Tree book bins on that. This keeps the book bins organized but still allows you to move from your craft room to the kitchen table and back again with ease.