I used to babysit a little girl while her mom worked. We'd go to various parks every day and bring a bag of toys & crafts with us.
Like most kids, she loved drawing her own pictures and coloring in her coloring books. And like most kids, she kinda drug her feet when it was time to go home. It always took forever to place her crayons in the box so that they'd fit exactly right.
Failed crayon container ideas:
Fail #1: I thought about making her a crayon roll but that would have taken her even longer to put crayons away!
Fail #2: I thought about putting them in a bag but she didn't want the crayons to break.
Fail #3: The chinese food container always seemed to get squashed or the cover came loose.
Fail #4: An ice cream pail was way too big to take with us every day.
Quite by accident, I found the best container to carry the perfect amount of crayons:
