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The school year is finally coming to an end. If you are a teacher, that is an occasion to celebrate. But that does not mean your work is over. While summer is a great time to relax and restore your energy for next year, it is also a great time to be thinking about classroom organization ideas. Oftentimes, a brilliant organization idea starts with the right supply—and plastic bins are among the best classroom organization supplies around! Why? Here are a few reasons!

1. The colors brighten the room.
Every classroom can use a bit of brightening up! That is true whether you are trying to organize and decorate a classroom for elementary school students or older kids. In fact, classrooms for older children can especially use a splash of color.

When you purchase plastic bins in primary colors and other bright hues, you immediately bring a sense of fun and energy to the classroom. This can help students to feel comfortable and engaged.

2. Different colors help kids (and you) stay organized.
Especially with younger students, it can be a challenge to stay organized with class papers, textbooks, and learning tools and games.

Get a set of colored plastic storage bins with lids and come up with a system which makes sense for your classroom. For example, you could designate specific colors for different tables/groups. Or you could separate the colors by subject. Science could be green, math could be blue, English could be orange, art could be purple, and so on. That way the kids will instantly be able to see where everything belongs, and you should end up with far less in the way of organizational hassles.

You can even use this color-coding system throughout your classroom. Maybe for example you use one area of the classroom for science experiments. Label the area with a green sign, and use a green bin for the supplies.

Getting new children onboard with your system at the start of the year will be easy when they can instantly and intuitively grasp that system through visual cues. You can even write down the colors and subjects on the chalkboard on the first day and leave them up there for a couple of weeks as an easy and fast reminder.

3. They will not break.
Another nice thing about plastic storage totes, especially when it comes to dealing with very small children, is that they are durable and will not break. If you have rambunctious young kids in your classroom who like to throw stuff around, they can subject the bins to quite a bit of abuse without anything happening to them.

Now you have some great ideas for getting your classroom organized using plastic bins. Hopefully this inspires you! Getting ready for the next school year is always a huge chore, but with the right organizational supplies and systems in place, the entire school year can go more smoothly. The extra time you take now to get things set up will save you a ton of time and headaches next year.