When Anna suggested spicing up our kitchens, this project immediately came to mind. Inspired by this, I had made one for myself a while back and hadn’t gotten around to blogging about it. After months of use, I can say it’s a hit at our house. The jumble of spoons, forks and knives gave me a headache every time I opened the drawer, and now K can help put her cutlery away and knows exactly where to go to find what she needs. Now that everything is organized, she seems to feel less compelled to dump everything out of the drawer once or twice a day– I’m appreciating that, too. Because then I have to decide exactly how dirty I think the kitchen floor is at that moment and whether I feel the need to wash alllll of it again. Or just throw it all back in the drawer and call it an exercise in immunity-building.
- glue stick
- clear contact paper
You’ll want to choose one cereal box that will be the main tray, and a smaller box that fits inside of it to section it.
Make sure the larger box fits in the drawer you want to use and is also large enough for the cutlery to fit inside with some wiggle room. I cut my insert piece like so.
This is super cute! What a great idea!
so so cute! I’m totally going to make one. Thanks again ladies.
hi i popped over here from Anna’s and i love this. this is so fun and such a great way to get your kids to help out. thanks for the tutorial
Where do you come up with these wonderful ideas?!!?
Very cute, great idea!
Love this! Im making one as soon as the kids go to beds tonite. What brand of cutlery is that? I am in dire need of durable kids cutlery and can never find any!
SO cute! Great idea. May need to make my husband one
love this! way cute and functional!
The cutlery is from Ikea. They’re pretty sturdy and super affordable. The pointy ends of the forks are not for chewing on. But other than that (do your kids do that?) I love them. Well, and the shape of the bottom of the spoon is a little odd… anthropomorphic. But I still love them. Susan
super idea. on my to do list. thanks for this post!
My kids chew on everything. Cups with any type of a plastic straw are no longer welcome in our house. I thought the same thing when I saw the spoon. “Ohhh what a cute set of cutlery, hmmm whats up with that spoon tho, oh well.”
I knew you were going to say ikea, because everything amazing or fantastic or anything that I gotta have comes from ikea. One problem……No Ikea with in driving distance of where I live. Ugh. And you can’t order a lot off there website. Double Ugh.
W.o.w! 1.99 for an 18 piece set is freaking amazing, now I just have to find somewhere else. I have been paying $2 for just a fork and spoon that after 5 times in the dishwasher fall apart. Thanks for sharing, it has opened me up to affordable kids cutlery. Tear tear, sniff sniff.
Very very cool! I love that it fits IKEA kidware too.
I love it! It’s super cute and it looks really functional too. When I used to teach preschool we put silhouettes of everything all around the room so the kids would know where things went and could put things away more independently. So it’s not only cute, but it’s so age-appropriate too!
Really cute, and I love how easy it looks to make! Mostly, I want to know what cutlery you got your munchkin that’s plastic but has knifes – I’ve been looking everywhere for toddler cutlery that has more than just a fork and a spoon!
So cute!! My 2 year old’s favorite thing to do is to help me unload the dishwasher and it’s amazing how good she is organizing the utensil drawer. She would LOVE this!!!
Cute AND organized. Two of my favorite things. You won my heart.
Love the tutorial!
This is adorable! I wish I had a freaking drawer to do this for! My tiny kitchen stinks! I love your blog!
Megan,
I have a set of plastic forks and spoons from the grocery store that we love… wish I could remember who made them. They are similar to other take-n-toss products and have animal shapes on the handles. We’ve had them for about 6 years and still goin’ strong! They came in a plastic cylinder by the paper plates. Good luck!
Susan,
Thanks for this great idea! Can’t wait to make it. I posted a link on my blog: http://ificould-ificould.blogspot.com/2010/05/kids-cutlery-tray.html
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Thanks for the great ideas!!
Missy
So cute! I love that everything matches… matchy-matchy is the only way to go.
W.o.w!
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Thanks for sharing! I am going to make one for my little guy.
Love it!
LOVE this idea!