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Looking for a way to make your boring plastic storage containers look more interesting? It is easy and fun to decorate plastic bins. All of these ideas are inexpensive and make for great craft projects for you and your kids. They can turn humdrum plastic bins into something everyone loves to look at!

• Wicker. This idea is quite simple. It literally is as simple as taking a plastic bin and placing it inside a wicker bin that is slightly larger. Alternately, you could put several smaller plastic bins inside a wicker bin. Why do this? Two reasons. First, you can create helpful compartments. Second, wicker is not particularly strong. Plastic is much stronger. In a sense, you are providing your wicker bins with a protective internal lining.

• Hand-painting. This idea is also very simple. Just coat the bins with paint in a color of your choice, and make a design by hand. This is a fun way to really get artistic, and a great one to involve your kids in.

• Stenciling. Like the idea of painting your bins, but looking for a way to create a more orderly design? Create a cut-out stencil out of paper or cardboard, and then paint through it onto your bins. You can make the same design on each of them!

• Nail polish. As it turns out, nail polish adheres very nicely to clear plastic totes, and gives you a way to introduce bold, beautiful hues to otherwise colorless boxes.

• Chalkboard paint. Chalkboard paint adheres nicely to pretty much any type of surface, plastic included. Add a layer of chalkboard paint to your bin, and you can label it, draw designs on it, or do whatever you want. Best of all, if you repurpose your bin anytime and simply erase and re-label it. Another fun activity with kids!

• Fabric. Learning how to cover a plastic bin with fabric is not an easy project, but it can be a very rewarding one! You can get a great finished effect from this, and probably will not even be able to identify your bin once it is finished as what it originally was. It will just look like a high-quality store-bought fabric bin you would have paid a lot more for!

• Washi tape or duct tape. Duct tape and washi tape are both fun, easy, fast ways to cover an unsightly bin and make it pretty. Washi tape in particular allows you to not only add the colors and designs which are on the tape, but also to make patterns and designs out of the tape itself.

As you can see, there are a lot of great ideas for transforming your boring plastic bins into works of art! When some of these projects are complete, you will no longer even be able to recognize your totes as cheap plastic bins. You may also come up with ideas we’ve never seen before. Good luck, and have fun!