DIY Back-to-School Custom Notebooks
It’s so hard to believe it’s already time to get ready for back to school! Get in the spirit with some super easy yet super fun customized notebooks!
Supplies:
- Blank notebooks
- Sharpies (We used silver and gold.)
- Old cardboard or card stock (We tried with regular paper—it’s doable but not as easy.)
- Pencil
- Scissors
Directions:
- Select a blank notebook and decide on your design. We chose both the letter D and a square. Any letters or shapes make a great design.
- Draw the design on the cardboard using the pencil. We used a sticky note as pattern for the square.
- Cut out the design and center the design on your chosen notebook.
- Pressing down on your design, trace your design onto the notebook with the Sharpie. My children chose to make a dot pattern around their designs.
- We chose to dot the Sharpie about an inch out from the center of their designs and then make the dots kind of fade toward the edge of the notebook.
- To avoid smudging, allow to air dry for several minutes before touching the marker.
- Repeat as many times as you want with as many notebooks and designs as you like! We loved this simple craft and made several for each of our big kids for school and one for each of their teachers for the fall!
Janelle Cumro-Sultzer lives in Manhattan, Kansas, with her husband, three children, two dogs, eight fish and a frog. Janelle is the owner of Flint Hills Mediation LLC and loves to focus on learning through play and getting messy with crafts.