DIY Chalk Paint Pencil Holder

If you are a coffee drinker what do you do with the creamer containers when you’re done with them? I have a couple of these containers in my refrigerator right now.

Instead of tossing them, have you ever considered repurposing them?

This Fall as you enjoy a homemade pumpkin spice coffee, save that container and let’s turn it into a pencil holder! And don’t be limited to just storing pencils in it. Make a couple. One for markers, one for map pencils, one for pens and on and on.

Being a homeschool family we have tons of supplies we can store in them! Let me show you how easy this is to create.

Supplies:

empty International Delight coffee creamer container

spray chalkboard paint

scissors

chalk

Cut the top off the plastic coffee creamer container leaving about 3/4th of the container for storing items in.

Grab your spray paint and evenly coat the plastic container with the paint.

Let it dry 100%.

If you need to speed up the drying process, you can use a hair dryer.

Once it is dry it will look like this.

I love the flat surface on the front of the container. It is perfect for writing on with chalk.

Unless, of course, you mess up when you’re writing and need to take a picture…. not that this is exactly what happened to me.

Add the markers or pens or pencils to the container.

Use your chalk to label the front.

We labeled this one for markers.

(Again, I would write on the other side where the container flattens out a bit. Just make sure your container is 100% dry before you write on it with chalk.)