6 Really Easy Homeschool Organization Ideas You Might Not Have Thought Of
This post: Super EASY homeschool organization ideas that will improve your life right away.
You’re here reading about homeschool organization ideas, which tells me one thing: You are trying to keep a lid on the crazy, too.
The good news: I‘m a problem solver & I love creating solutions to challenges- like needing homeschool organization ideas.
The really good news: The hacks I’m about to share are SO easy, & you don’t even have to do all of them, all of the time. (I don’t.) Picking up even a few of these habits will make a big difference right away.
(These ideas are so easy, you might have actually overlooked them!)
6 Really Easy Homeschool Organization Ideas
Here’s what has worked for my family of seven, whether we were doing school on the bedroom floor, at the kitchen table, or in a school room.
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1) Closets, Shelves, & Drawers
In our many years of homeschooling (since 2008), I’ve mostly had to make do with whatever I could find for creating a space for: books, supplies, & everything else that homeschooling families need.
Most of the time, what worked is making the MOST out of my (small) closets, shelves, & drawers. Don’t overlook the little things, Friend!
If you’re feeling like your homeschooling supplies are crowding in on your home life, take a long hard look at what spaces might be available for repurposing:
Could you clean out a drawer or a cabinet and use it to organize your school supplies?
Is there a closet- or a space within a closet, like a shelf- you could use to set up a mini homeschool office area?
Could you mount a shelve, or a few shelves on an unused wall space?
2) Get Your Kids Some Backpacks
I know, I know… your kids are homeschoolers. They don’t need backpacks.
But the honest truth is your need a place to contain their school work.
All five of my kids have had their own backpacks over the years, & it’s where they’ve kept the majority of their school work.
As my kids have gotten older & their book loads have grown heavier, we’ve learned to stick with canvas backpacks, like this one.
Backpacks are a life-saver if :
You are a homeschooling family who travels a lot
You participate in a weekly homeschool community
Your kids are enrolled in extra curricular classes or sports
Your kids are always losing their books and school supplies
Did I convince you yet? *wink*
3) Create Learning Spaces
If you’re already running low on space or organization skills, maybe you wonder how in the world creating a “learning space” is practical or helpful.
Let me assure you, it’s both!
—–> You can create a “learning space” literally anywhere & with anything: a corner, a room, or a desk; or something special that you bring into a space.
Consider the following “learning spaces” our family has used or created over the years:
an area rug
a small desk painted in a favorite color
a special place mat at the kitchen table
a jar of alphabet-shaped cookie cutters
a bean bag chair in a “reading corner”
a chalk/white board and easel
a pretty lamp & a small corner table
personal cork boards on a wall
a secretary desk in a living room corner
a small table with book shelves nearby
Anything that says This is your time and your & place to discover or create, can be a “learning space.” I’ve found that my kids naturally gravitate toward these spaces – give it a try & see what happens!
4) Cultivate Personal Space (for You)
I’ve learned that it’s important for me to have a space, too. I’m a highly visual person, so I try to keep my space beautiful as well as useful.
Here are favorites from my personal home office:
5) Invest in a Few Crates
When our family was part of a Classical Conversations community for several years, I bought two rolling crates for hauling books & supplies on community day.
During the high school years, my teens’ piles of books, notebooks, & supplies are pretty intimidating (even for a canvas backpack!). We’ve found these rolling crates to be a worthy investment, even for home use.
6) Simplify, Don’t Deify
At the end of the day, here’s the honest truth:
My house still gets cluttered with homeschool debris, no matter how many hacks & tricks I implement.
As much as I love organization & crave perfection, I have to admit that a Pinterest-worthy house or homeschool space is not the Holy Grail of home education.
—–> Staying connected to my children’s hearts is.
So that means these hacks are simply a measure to keep everyone- mainly Mom or Dad- sane during that process!
Education is a life,” as Charlotte Mason so eloquently stated.
And life gets messy. (In my corner of the world, anyway.)
My ultimate of-all-homeschool-organization ideas, dear mama, is this:
Simplify your life so that you may live in reasonable order, but don’t deify your home.
Being organized is fun- for people like me, anyway.
But it won’t make us more holy or more loved by God.
God treasures messy moms with messy kids, just as much as He does organized moms who also have messy kids. wink
Tell me
What are your best homeschool organization ideas? (Or your biggest challenges?)
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