Portable Homework Desk Upcycle

by Nancy at Craft Your Happiness

This is a wonderful way to inspire your kids to do their homework with a small portable desk homework helper station! COMPLETE DIRECTIONS/PRINTABLES & LOTS MORE PHOTOS HERE!

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SUPPLIES

IMPORTANT:

There are links and clarification on the exact items used on our full site post. But you can use a variety of containers! Just make sure they are slim and only an inch or so tall.

1 wooden TV tray

Snack bin

Pencil/Pen bin

Homework Helper Pocket (tutorial linked on our site)

Velcro, two sided sticky. You can also just glue your containers onto the desk.

Paints

Package tape (for laminating the small labels if desired.

Washi tape (optional)

Printable Theme of choice FREE DOWNLOAD ON OUR SITE

This is the old TV Tray we started with. We sanded the top a bit as it was rough.

We then painted a section of it.

After the first area dried we masked it off and painted the second side.

We chose the slim containers we wanted and used Velcro to attach them.

You can also just glue them on. Make sure to use thin containers so the child has plenty of room to still work on.

THREE FREE PRINTABLE THEMES TO CHOOSE FROM HERE! Cut out your theme of choice. We laminated the small labels with packing tape then attached them to our containers.

Here is another theme we used.

Each printable theme has a matching quote you can place in the "Homework Helper Pouch.' made form a 3 Ring Binder. (THIS TUTORIAL IS ALSO ON HOMETALK AND ON OUR SITE!}

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Eaphillips0072 on Mar 23, 2017
Where did you get the plastic containers that you used Velcro or Glue to attach them onto the Lap Desk I’ve never seen anything like them?

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