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There are so many ways to organize your home when you begin homeschooling. Personally, it has taken quite a while to get to this point and as time goes by as you homeschool your children, you’ll see why. This “design” fits how we homeschool, so yours will look different but I hope I can inspire you.

So this is our homeschool room. I dedicated one part of our house (well to be honest, we homeschool in every part of our house 😆), but this is the main area where you will find everything homeschool related since we decided we will be homeschooling until our kids are ready for college.

I really love this space as it has everything we need in one place (minus majority of the art supplies like paint/playdough/brushes etc., which are in the kitchen). One thing I found common among homeschoolers are bookshelves. We have a lot of them. I don’t speak for everyone but please let me know in the comments how many bookshelves do you have and if you find them useful.

So back to the bookshelves- they are so useful! They provide a lot of storage, not just for books, but for the many school supplies accrued over time.

Also, those organizational bins/craft storage carts are a staple as well. We have a lot of books, science supplies, arts and crafts as well as tinkering supplies and they fit perfectly on bookshelves and in these carts.

It can definitely be overwhelming when organizing your homeschool space, but with time, and learning about what your child’s interests are, you will be able to organize your area to meet those needs. This is my third year homeschooling and I finally feel happy with this space (although I do love to reorganize so things might change again in the next few months).

So how I set up the room is as follows:

Mini Library

Here we have random books to pull out and read. There are seasonal books, magazines, children’s bedtime stories, and textbooks. In another bookshelf, I have all of our illustrated educational books from Usborne including their encyclopedias, Dr. Seuss, Welcome To The Museum collection, and so on.

Science Section

Here we have our science supplies. My kids love S.T.E.A.M projects, science experiments, chemistry and all of that good stuff. So we have all of our kits from Kiwi Co, Mel Science, The Magic School Bus as well as beakers, flasks, and test tubes.

Tinkering and Toys

On these shelves we have random tinkering supplies and building materials from DollarTree and Michael’s like block cubes, paper clips, magnets, dowel rods, popsicle sticks, foil, tape, and so on. We also have a marble run set, magnetic tiles, toy figurines, puzzles, a microscope, rocks and magnifying glasses. My boys love seeing all of this out and can grab to play and easily put back.

Rolling Carts

I use these carts for extra storage of paper plates, glue sticks, markers, crayons, chalk, seasonal project stuff, and what not.

Desks

We bought these desks at Ikea because my boys love to be creative and inventive and also need a space to complete their school work. These desks are really great quality and it has such a great amount of space on it and it also has a pull out table which is awesome.

So that’s it for our homeschool area. Check out my video below!