Bookshelf makeover

Have you heard about the study they did, linking the amount of books a family has in their home, to the IQ of the children in the home? (more books= higher IQ)? Well, I really hope that’s true. Because after almost twelve years of parenting, and eight years of homeschooling, we have quite a few alot of a ton of books. (We all love books) 🙂

Until recently, the bookshelf in our girls’ room looked alot like this…

When my little ones finished looking at a book, they would often just pile books on the shelf. Or, books would not stay straight and just fall over. Eventually, it would be quite a messy bookcase!

Now, after our “bookshelf makeover”, their bookcase looks like this:

We purchased two nine-cubicle bookshelves, and then sorted and organized the books. Emma and I designated each “cube” a certain type of book (chapter books, easy readers, bibles/devotionals, science, history, picture books, etc.). I might even use my label maker soon to label each shelf, making it even easier to keep organized.

I love this new shelving because it makes it much easier for all of the kids to remember where a book belongs and put it back properly. The books stay upright much easier.

The girls have had these bookshelves for a few weeks, and the books are still staying tidy! They used all the space on the very top to put stuffed animals and photos. It looks really cute!

Now if I could get ALL of the bookshelves in our home to look like this….:)

-Beth

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