Good buy - cheap homeschool supplies

A good resource I picked up about a year ago was a set of thin chopping boards from Aldi, which cost about $4 for a pack of 4. They are really thin, and flexible and work excellently as a portable work surface for under paper for drawing with textas, painting, gluing, you name it! The children know, if they want to do drawing or colouring or anything with textas, they grab a board and pop it under their work. Even my 20 month old, Harrison knows to get one if he wants to draw. With these, my children are free to colour or paint or do whatever messy business they like without me stressing over them potentially ruining the rug, blanket, floor, bed, table etc...