I will admit that as an organized maven I was having a hard time wrangling all of the homework papers. Every night was an anxiety ridden screaming fest (me). My oldest son is…how do I put this lightly…relaxed. He likes to do his homework, but to the beat of the drummer in his head. Having him help me find the homework supplies or folder for that matter, was just too much to bear. You get it right? I came up with different plans here and there. Using this box or that organizer, but nothing got the job done.
Then a friend pointed out The Homework Caddy. I get a little light headed around the perfect organizing solution, so imagine how I felt when I opened the webpage. The Homework Caddy is exactly as described: a place for all things related to homework.
Let’s run down all of the amenities this product has.
- The dry erase calendar. I have an organizer as my calendar. I use mine daily. It never occurred to me that children want to have their own calendars. The minute I put the caddy up J was so excited to see the calendar. When we filled out the events for this month, he kept telling me all of the things I forgot to add to his calendar. I put the due dates of his homework due [on Friday] (for him his homework is given on Friday and returned the next Friday). He even helped me date the calendar. He’s almost 6 and I realize more everyday that he likes to have his own organizational tools. He is my son after all.
- Four pockets. There are four pockets, each a different color. They have clear plastic squares for inserting a label for each of the pockets. Each pocket is legal sized, so there’s plenty of room for all types of paperwork.
- Clear plastic pocket. Right smack dab in the middle of the caddy is a legal sized clear pocket. This is meant for you to put your child’s lunch menu. However, we don’t have a typical menu. I thought about what to put in there and then I remembered that J had these follow-up books for the math curriculum. If you are familiar with Everyday Math then you might now about the take home booklets. I put those in there, so that J could see them, instead of in a drawer somewhere.
- Three more pockets. Two smaller pockets are located to the right and left of the big clear pocket. That’s to hold various supplies. Ours holds: pencils, scissors, glue stick and scotch tape. The third pocket is next to the calendar meant to hold your dry erase marker for the calendar.
BONUSES: It comes with the hooks to hang it up. These hooks are the ones that stick without ruining your walls. It also comes with the dry erase marker with built in eraser on the cap. There are two long velcro straps located at the bottom meant to hold rolled up poster board. I think it would also be a great place to put a yoga mat.
One thing to note is the The Homework Caddy of the whole caddy. It is quite large so you need to make sure wherever you intend to use it has enough wall space to handle it. The back/front of a door is the a perfect place.
The material is a super sturdy canvas. Think our backpacks when we were in school and multiply that by 2. I woudl think you would need a very sharp pair of scissors to cut this bad boy.
If you have homework going on in your house you must consider how The Homework Caddy will facilitate an easier transition to homework time. Now if only they could come up with a product that gets all children motivated to do their homework in a timely manner. A mother can hope right?
The above review is based on my own thoughts. No compensation or sample was provided.
We LOVE our Homework Caddy. I have so much less clutter, and we’re not constantly looking for a pencil with both an eraser AND a tip. It’s wonderful!
And when people come over and see it (it’s inside our kitchen pantry), I always get comments and they want to know where to get one for their kids.
GREAT find. We love ours too!