How the blazes do I organise all of the kids' arts and crafts crap?

[MaggieFS]

HELP! The house is being overrun. Pens, pencils, glitter glue, gel pens, googley eyes, Pom poms, pipe cleaners, glue, scissors, rulers, felt, the list feels endless.

I need to find a way to store it neatly - compartments or something - but in a unit (for want of a better word) which I can lift in its entirety in and out of a cupboard.

Any bright ideas?

We have 2 large under bed plastic storage boxes with lids, full to the brim of this type of stuff. I think we bought them from Argos.

We just pull them out when something is needed, and I do a lot of cajoling to ensure all the crap gets put back in them and is not strewn around the house!

I couldn’t cope without these boxes!

These are brilliant - ikea do them in two sizes and the smaller one is perfect to hold a pack of a4 paper, pots of pens and pencils etc and colouring books.