I've seen so many cute closet dividers on Pinterest and decided I needed to make my own. First, I headed to Babies-R-Us with a gift card, hoping to find some cheap plastic dividers as a starting point. The store I went to had two styles, and this one was on sale. I was able to buy it for less than $5.
Materials:
- Plastic Closet Dividers
- Wooden Animal Figures (I bought these in the craft section at Walmart years ago)
- Hot Glue Gun
- Decorative Paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Glue Stick
I started by choosing the paper I wanted to use and tracing the divider with a pencil
I traced on the wrong side of the paper to avoid pencil marks. I then flipped the divider over and traced it again so I had a piece to cover both sides of it. Be sure to flip the divider so that it is a mirror image of the first piece you traced.
Cut out the tracing as close to the line as possible.
With a glue stick, glue the paper to the divider. I made it a point to cover the edges very well to keep the paper from peeling off.
The dividers I bought came with stickers so you could label each section. I would assume most come with these.
I saved the ones I didn't use in case I wanted to change my method of organization down the road. Right now I just used the ones for clothing sizes newborn to twelve months. I placed the stickers on both sides of the divider.
I then used the hot glue gun to glue the wooden animals onto the dividers. Clearly they serve no practical purpose; they're just cute. I was really frustrated with the turtle because he pointed the opposite direction, but oh well.
Here's how they look in the closet (sorry for the bad picture; the room doesn't have good lighting yet, and I took it late in the day).
Very cute
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