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It’s a simple design that is easily customizable for your space and makes it simple for little people to store their shoes (read: put their daggone shoes away themselves). The trays hold about 5 pairs of little kid shoes, 4 pairs of women’s shoes, and really only a couple pairs of men’s shoes…which is kind of perfect, if you really think about it. With the construction of the mudroom and addition of shoe storage we implemented a full ban on shoes in the house (past the mudroom). Addicted 2 DIY – French Cleat Wall Organizer RemodelaCasa – Organization Jaime Costiglio – Easy Closet Shelves Woodshop Diaries – DIY Closet Cabinets

These simple crayon holders make great gifts for Valentine’s Day classroom gift giving (say that three times fast), or for birthday party favors. I carefully fit the bit to my kids’ crayons, and then found that the crayons I bought were juuuust a tiny bit too large, so they crayons fit looser than I wanted. And it’s great training for when you have them take over sanding all of the stuff you don’t want to sand down the road a bit. Stick the labels to some bags (I picked some up at Hobby Lobby), fill the holders with crayons, and plop them into the bags, and count that Valentine’s day classroom prep a success.

There’s the actual Legos, the instruction booklets (who keeps those? ! ), the prized builds that have to stay together, the half finished and “in-process” builds (because my kids are mini-me’s), the minifigures, the baseplates. -Router, dado blade, or table saw with regular 1/8” blade (but you’ll have to run it multiple times) -Table saw or circular saw to cut plywood backer to size -Scissors (to cut the faux-Lego tape) Cut a piece of 1/2″ plywood 12″ wide and 24 3/4″ long. Cut a series of 1/4″ wide dados every 2 1/4″ by setting your table saw or router to 2 1/2″.

1″ pocket hole screws drill (this set kicks butt, btw) tape measure and/or straight rule (this one is pricey, but so accurate it will make you giddy) table saw miter saw drawer slides drawer pulls (I used these) brad nailer router with 1/2″ bit and table or dado stack and table saw clamps for drawer box assembly Lock-Align Drawer Organizer System by Rockler Universal Drawer Slide Jig by Rockler Drawer Pull Jig by Rockler Rockler The drawer slides need 1/2″, so your drawers should always be 1″ narrower. To install the drawers on my workbench I used the Universal Drawer Slide Jig, the Drawer Pull Jig, and  drawer front installation clamps, all by Rockler. For the drawer pulls I used this little trick… To install the drawer pulls I used the Rockler Jig It Deluxe Drawer Pull, and I cannot say enough about how simple to use and awesome this thing is.