Keep Craft Essentials Decluttered & Organized With The Help Of A Clever Kitchen Gadget

Dinky craft supplies such as stickers, feathers, and googly eyes can get disorganized fast. If it gets out of hand, you may find yourself avoiding creative projects to circumvent the mess. Luckily, you can solve this crafting problem by — you guessed it — crafting. There are lots of genius craft room organization hacks, from using a doom box to help you declutter to creating an organized art supply storage system. A rotating desktop organizer for small and lightweight supplies might be just the ticket, and you can make it from inexpensive taco stands.

To try this project, find stackable plastic taco stands like Charmount's Taco Holder Stands or Baderke's Mexico Taco Holder Stands. You'll also need hot glue and a small rotating tray such as the Jersvims 8 Inch Acrylic Turntable Platter. When choosing taco stands and a tray, check the dimensions. Your tray needs to accommodate the full length of one taco stand and twice its width. If you plan to store tiny supplies such as beads and buttons in your organizer, avoid stands with decorative cutouts that these items could fall through.

Also check how many tacos each of your stands is designed to hold, which will affect how many storage compartments you can make.You'll need six stands that hold three tacos apiece to make a vertical organizer with 13 compartments. For a taller storage tower with more compartments, grab a couple more taco stands. Once you've gathered your materials, heat your glue and find a clean, flat workspace such as a countertop or craft table.

You may have noticed that your taco stands look like little rows of tents. To make your organizer, stack your tents so they create long compartments with diamond-shaped openings. YouTuber Thrifted Living has a video demonstrating this technique. Once your glue is hot, grab a taco stand. Line the top edges of its tents with glue, turn the stand upside down, and stick it to the left half of your rotating tray. Then repeat the process with another taco stand, sticking it the right half of the rotating tray, parallel to the first stand. If there's a gap between the two stands, push them together, making sure that their tents align. Afterward, take a short break to let the glue set — and perhaps eat a taco.

For subsequent levels of your organizer, use a similar process, placing glue on the tent peaks and sticking them together. Glue some of the stands' other edges for additional stability if needed, and let your glue set after completing each level of the tower. Build new levels until the organizer reaches your desired height. After that, decorate it with stickers or washi tape featuring a pattern you enjoy, or give it a coat of paint in a fun color. If you're a fan of the simple look, you can jump straight to filling it with pencils, paintbrushes, pipe cleaners, and other supplies that fit neatly in its compartments. Then give it a spin, admire your work, and place it on a crafting table you'd like to stay organized.