How to Cover a Crate Seat

How to cover crate seats can help change the look of your classroom.
As my classroom is coming together, I am putting together seating options for my students.
I was given these awesome 6 black crates for my classroom.
They are a great option for me since I am lacking on storage without cabinets in my classroom.
The owner before me had home depot cut the wood inserts to fit the crates.
In fact, she had a few layers of covers on these wood tops from previous years.

Here is what I had to work with.

Here is what I did so you can did to reuse these crate seats to make them work for me.
First, I gathered a staple gun and one {42 by 63 inches}
panel of a solid color window curtain.
{This link is a good one since you can choose from a variety of colored window curtains
that work GREAT to re purpose things.
You can easily choose a curtain that will work for you.}

I chose a thinker curtain because I wanted the color to be rich and durable,
especially to cover the zebra print beneath it.
I ordered two panels because I wasn’t confident I could get all the seats covered with one panel.
Sure enough I really only needed one of the 42 by 63 inch panels easily covered all 6 seats.
It good to have extra material in case something happens to this material.
A teacher HAS to match at all times!

Next, I laid out the panel upside down and spread out the seat tops.
This makes sure the front side of the curtain is on the top.
I wanted to make sure everything fit correctly before I made a single cut.

Now, I cut around one of the seats.
This material was thick. So it took a sharp pair of scissors.
Now, I stretched the material and stapled the four sides. I made several staples on each side.
The corners were slightly tougher.

First I tucked the fabric together.
I folded the corners. I put one staple here:

Last, I pulled the flap that is off to the side and stapled it down too.
Honestly, the back side isn’t great looking…
but it wasn’t beforehand either.