Make Your Own Storage Seats

So I saw them all over Pinterest and HAD to finally do them myself!!

Choose a fun fabric!
My classroom is a Jungle Theme so I went with some animal print!

These seats are awesome for storage and are really convenient for kidney tables/long work tables since you can push them in or move them around easily.

You will need:

A few yards of material, plastic file crates (Walmart/Target sells them for $4 each), Pillow or Sponge, Flat piece of wood for each crate, heavy duty stapler, scissors


Step 1:  Cut your flat piece of durable flat wood to fit the inside corners of the crate. This needs to fit perfectly so that the wood can rest easy on the crate.

Step 2: Take a piece of long sponge/small cushion and place it on top of the wood. Take the material and cover the wood and sponge. Turn the entire thing around and staple the bottom to secure the cushion/sponge inside.

**Make sure you leave enough material before you cut it to staple it to the wood.

Step 3: After stapling all around the bottom of the cushion, turn the seat around and securely fit it into the crate. You can take a piece of material and attach it to the side of the wood so that you can make a flap to lift up the seat easily, or you can just lift it up through the hole of the crate.


Material is super expensive so if you have any extra material, make a pillow or two!

How fun are these!