DIY School Paper Memory Keeper for Your Kiddo: Grab Your Free Printable Labels!
Wondering how to organize kids’ school papers at home? This DIY school paper organizer is easy & efficient!
Looking for a better way to organize your child’s school papers & memories this year? 📚🤓
Storing keepsake papers, awards, report cards, artwork, etc., can become so overwhelming for a parent. While you’d like to keep everything realistically, that isn’t always possible.
Unless you make a school paper organizer! This way, you can hold everything in one place and stay organized! Plus, it keeps your kiddo’s schoolwork from getting crinkled or destroyed.
Consider setting up a system before the school year starts so you can easily organize your memories all year long!
How to organize kids’ school papers at home.
I want to say that I’m an organized person, but honestly, I’ve always struggled with paper clutter and knowing what to do with my children’s “stuff.” For instance, I have papers stashed in my office, the kitchen, their rooms, and even the garage.
With that said, I’m working on this school paper organizer project to get myself motivated to identify the BEST pieces to hold onto, and so far, it’s working!
This easy filing system keeps only the very best memories of each school year and stores them all together in a plastic hanging file bin for each child. This paper storage solution has been such a helpful idea for me, and it’s working out great for our family!
I’m sharing these FREE printable labels and cover sheets so you can create a school paper organizer for your kids, too!
PRINT K-12 File Folder Labels
File Cover Sheet – Print or Save .jpg file
Bin Cover Sheet – Print or Save .jpg file
DIY School Paper Organizer
PrintSupplies Needed
Directions
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Fill out the hanging file cover sheets for each grade including year, teacher, school, etc., and attach a school photo for each year. Glue or tape to the front of a hanging file.
2
Attach labels for each school year to file folders. If desired, you can create multiple file folders for each year and separate them into different categories such as schoolwork, artwork, awards, etc. File papers according to each grade level.
3
Label the bin with your child’s name. Feel free to use a marker, or save this blank label with a school supply border and open it in an image editor to add text. I used PicMonkey.com, an online editing tool, to add text to images. The font pictured is called Yesteryear.
This school paper organizer is really easy to keep up with once you have it all set up!
If you’re wondering how to organize kids’ school papers at home, try this easy DIY project. Honestly, I wish I had done this storage system years ago when my first child started school. I love looking back at all my kids’ special writing assignments and memories, and I know that they will, too, in the future!
All parents of littles should do this – you won’t regret it! I started these for my kids when they were young. My oldest just graduated this spring. It came in super handy when looking for info (awards, etc) to go on scholarship applications and for some fun memories to put out at his open house!
Great that you were able to have all those fun memories to look back on for his open house and bonus that you had info easily available for those scholarship applications too! 🙌❤️🎉
How do I label the Avery with the template you provided? How do I copy the exact style into my blank Avery labels?
Hey Tanu! Once you purchase the labels (or if you have them on hand), they typically have a template page that you can practice on for alignment with your printer. I sometimes make a few additional copies of that template too to be sure. You’ll then download the PDF labels above and print with the actual labels in your printer. Hope this helps!