Baskets, Binders and Bookshelves — Organizing Homeschool Materials for Large Families

What large family doesn’t need tips for organizing their homeschool materials?  And organizing homeschool materials for large families takes extra care, so your house keeps looking at least something like a home and not like the local teacher store!   There are three great tools for putting this organizational plan into action — baskets, binders and bookshelves.

Baskets

Finding baskets is easy. They are very reasonably priced at garage sales and dollar stores; at Walmart and other big box retailers;  and at local craft stores.  They come in a variety of materials, colors and styles to match any decor — perfect for when your homeschool is located in the center of the home.  The best thing about them, though, is they allow you to organize tools and equipment while still looking decorative and chic.

Binders

Binders are essential to keep homeschool materials for a large family organized.  You can have a different color binder for each child, or a color for each subject.  You can use them to keep track of monthly lesson plans, field trip notes and extracurricular activities as well as for curricula, worksheets, and even extra paper.  The choice is really up to you!

Bookshelves

What homeschooling mom doesn’t sigh at the sight of rows of books lined up with neat precision on a bookshelf?  Bookshelves are an invaluable tool for organizing homeschool materials for a large family because, quite frankly, large families have more than the average number of books!  Not to mention, they are a great place to store your binders and baskets of supplies as well, making it easy to keep everything within reach during your homeschool day.

All in all, just these three simple items can make organizing homeschool materials for large families a pleasure instead of a pain!