hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world well today I've got another wayback
Wednesday for you and this one's pretty special not only is it one of our more
viewed videos but it's stars Hanna in what is I think her very first video
that she ever did with me so for me it's pretty special because Hanna's a
special gal and she's getting ready to head off to college now so to look back
and see when she was really really young and just starting out with us is
really fun and and I really enjoy it so I'm excited to share it with you it's a
locker organizer and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do
wayback Wednesday locker organizer
hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world this is my friend Hanna and she has
joined me for a recycling craft that I think will be great for back-to-school
Hanna do you have a locker at your school yep okay and now how do you
normally keep all your stuff well it's usually just on a shelf and it's kind of
all heaped together not very good wouldn't it be great if you
had like a locker organizer yeah like one of these perhaps Wow so what we've
done basically is we've taken something that most kids have when they go back to
school which is a new pair of shoes right so you have a shoebox lid and
we're basically going to turn this shoebox lid into one of these fabulous
locker organizers so you're gonna help me out today is that okay with you oh
yeah so the first thing we want to do is we want to give our box a little bit of
flair and so we're gonna use our fabulous duct tape and so what we're
gonna do is we're gonna use this polka dot duct tape here oh pretty and I'm
just gonna measure it for the inside of my box okay you want to put that in
there for me sure now you don't have to do the bottom part of your box if you
don't want to because you're gonna end up covering with a whole bunch of stuff
but I always like to have a little bit of color on anything that I do so I
figured it was best to cover the back so now you can see that Hanna has just
placed that strip of duct tape right inside here and we're gonna skip this
step a little bit ahead and Hanna just so that we can get to our next step
because there are quite a few steps in making our locker now you can see we've
got the entire inside covered and now the next thing we need to do is cover
the sides so to do this Hanna what we're gonna actually do is we're going
to take our duct tape we're going to use a different kind of duct tape this time
we're going to take our duct tape and we're gonna place it on the outer side
but we're gonna leave it up and what I mean by that is so it's sticking up yeah we're gonna
stick it up so see how this is like that sticking up and I'm gonna fold the
corner over here fold the corner over here now why I did that is because I'm
gonna take my scissors and I'm gonna give a little snip right here and a snip
right here and then exactly we're gonna fold these down perfect
there we go and now not only do we have the outside covered but we have the
inside exactly now we're gonna jump ahead again you
ready yep here we go we have got our inside and our outside totally covered
so now we get to decide what do we want to put in our locker organization so and
now the most important thing is to figure out do we want to put you know
pencils pens do we need a mirror do we want like a little bulletin board so
what do you think that you would like to have in yours probably a bulletin board
okay so a bulletin board so a great thing to make a bulletin board is
actually corks and I'll show you what we do and do we're gonna take these little
corks these little wine corks here and we're gonna glue them into the corner
just like that and we can make it fill the entire area once again
you ready take a jump with me boing just like this what do you think so now
we have to think about what else do we want to put in here hmm maybe like a
holder for pencils okay so a holder for pens and pencils and you know what works
great for that your handy-dandy everyday water bottle now this is just an 8 ounce
water bottle and what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna cut the top of it off and
decorate it with duct tape once again boing we've got one done for us
already so we're gonna take this and where would you like to have your pens
or pencils where do you think they're right there right there where do you
think I think right in the corner ok so right in the corner so we're just gonna
take a little bit of our hot glue again and remember we always use adult
supervision when we're using a hot glue gun even though I know you're gonna be
what 12 years old soon or are you already yeah so you probably are
old enough to use one on your own but it's always good to have adult
supervision so we're gonna put it right there in the corner
now is there anything else that you think we ought to add maybe something
maybe like decoration sure we could add some decorations so to do that we could
use our duct tape to do that or you know what else while I'm thinking about it
why don't we have a place to keep like a hairbrush or something like that what do
you think it's a good idea so you know what's great for that is a
box that you would keep soap in you know the soap comes in these boxes so we've
got a little box and what I did was I just cut the top part off of it and one
more time ready magic boing we're gonna jump ahead cuz we've got one decorated
for us okay so where would you like to glue this one um hmm would it fit here
it could fit there but then you can't put anything there so why don't we put
it down here sounds good now one of the main and important things
that we're going to need is we are going to need to be able to secure this to our
locker now most lockers are metal but not all
are but most of them have vents in them don't they they have like little holes
in them and stuff like that so there's two ways that I'm going to show you that
we can attach this to a locker the first thing is we're going to flip it over on
its front first thing we can use is we can use these really cool magnets and
they're made they make them at like office supply stores and they make
them for going on the backs of business cards so feel that oh sticky its sticky
right so you just peel off the back and put these all over the back of your box
and that's gonna go and stick right to your locker if it's magnetic because
it's magnetic but if your locker is made out of metal now the other thing you can
do if you don't have a magnetic locker if you've got a plastic cubby or
something like that what you can use is a handy dandy hanger exactly what I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna measure about there and there and just how big it is and I'm
gonna use a pair of needle nose pliers I'm just gonna clip right here ready
this is kind of stiff so I know right fun huh I would let you do this except
it's really it it actually takes a lot of strength to cut one of these guys
there we go so now the main thing here though is that the hook is going in the
wrong direction right so with a little bit of adult help you can just give it a
little half turn like that and now we're just gonna use our handy dandy friend
duct-tape and duct tape it in place so I'm gonna go like this would you mind
holding that for me not at all so we're gonna fold it like that put it over top let's
see then Hanna you could stick this part in the vent into the vents exactly and
then you've got your hanger upper and your locker keeper is secure and safe
what I love about these is you just stick your little your little pins and
your little notes and all that kind of stuff in here but you can design it in
many different ways and we're gonna show you a few that we did ahead of time here
as you can see here we've used the little soap container and here what
we've actually done is we have covered all of the corks with different colors
of duct tape which makes kind of yeah fancy and snazzy and then over here you
can see we've got a little mirror now this was an old compact that came from a
compact mirror that came from an old makeup kit so we just stuck that on in
here and this one we've used some hair ribbon and we've put some little clips
and some little hair little hair things accoutrement but this one is one of my
favorites and you know what we've done over here Hannah we've actually used the
inside part of an egg container and we cut it and glued it in place and then
glued magnets inside of the egg cups so that anything like we've got here some
what do we got we've got some of those wire brads we've got paper clips we put
golf tees on here and hung rubber bands on it so you can see how you can really
design this to be whatever you need it to be so for more back-to-school
recycling crafts come and check us out at sophie-world.com so which one
are you gonna take home with you today this one