How to Make Your Own Awesome Teacher Toolbox & Drawer Labels

Who doesn't love organization? But what about organization in style? Even better!

I am not a naturally organized person. I make lists, lots of lists to try to help stay organized. When it comes to organizing STUFF, I need motivation. I find making things visually appealing motivates me to keep things sorted.

So I made labels for the toolbox I confiscated from my husband for my office and for Sterilite drawers to keep things filed without much effort.

I love making things for teachers I went ahead and adapted the labels I made in two different styles for teachers to use. You can pick these up in my TPT store here or you can make your own!

My husband has a lot of tools and toolboxes so when I wanted to try and make my own for my office I didn't have to look far. I just took one of his that wasn't getting much use. This is the one he had full of nails and screws but I had better plans for it! He got it here in case you want to use the same one.

I emptied it and cleaned it well and then measured the drawer fronts and got to work. I went for a fun retro themed design for my first layout and liked that one a lot but I have a special love of designing things to incorporate the chalkboard effect. So after the retro designs were done I decided to try the chalkboard design style and had a lot of fun doing that set which is the one I ended up using.

Once I designed the labels I just printed them out on cardstock and laminated them (who doesn't love a laminator?) and then cut them out and used double sided sticky tape to attach them to the drawers.

From there I got to organizing and actually enjoyed sorting everything - which was a first!

From there I knew I wanted to make more matching labels so I measured the front of my Sterilite drawers and reworked my toolbox labels to match that size and decorated them for various things in my drawers.