When you do it yourself

This is a DIY post!

I had seen at other daycares and various school supply chains one of these marker holders:

The only problem was these marker holders sell for about 16.99 plus shipping in canada! That's a lot of money for a program with no extra money! 

So I decided to make one myself! I required some assistance from my father in law, and it turned out great! Here are some images and instructions:

First gather materials I used one long board and I cut it into three equal pieces.

The board was about 1 inch thick and about 3 feet long. It was about 4 inches across. I also needed a set of new markers, crayons and wood glue.

I traced around a marker and a crayon until I had ten circles for each. The next part was the tricky part.

My father in law helped here. We used drill bits that were about the size of the cap (as that's the part that sticks in) and one the size of a crayon. He drilled the holes into the top piece of wood so that they went all the way through. Making the crayon holes a little loose so that they can be pulled in and out by little hands.

The marker holes were made tighter. 

Here are the finished holes. 

Next you take the other two pieces of wood and you glue all three together, insuring the piece with the holes is on the top. Clamp with a C clamp and make sure to use something on either side to avoid the clamp leaving a mark. 

After it's dry, sand it down to get rid of any marks/ splinters, and carefully glue each marker cap inside the hole. This makes it easy for little hands to remove the cap and use the marker, it also means no more dried out markers!! Not to fear, when these markers run out crayola caps are universal and any crayola marker will fit!

Enjoy!!