These can be great if you need a handy place to stash lunch money, notes, or other small but important items. What you will need: Small, empty metal box, such as the kind Altoids mints come in Craft paper Adhesive-backed …[Continue]
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Blue Jean Book Bag
If your kids are facing those last days of summer with nothing to do and to much time on their hands you may want to consider having them try some of these back to school crafts. These homemade school supplies …[Continue]
Creating a Locker Pocket
Kid’s lockers can be pretty disorganized over the course of a school year. Part of the reason for this disorganization is that lockers have no system for organization. They generally include a couple of hooks for hanging things and maybe, …[Continue]
Create a Backpack Buddy
There are two good reasons to spend part of a day making backpack buddies with your kid. One reason is that they are fun to make. The other reason is after you are through, your kid will love her backpack. …[Continue]
More Bookmark Ideas
Another idea for making a bookmark is to make a creature to mark the pages with. You can use a piece of foam some beady eyes, and a pipe cleaner to make an awesome bookmark. Have your child decide on …[Continue]
Make the Best Bookmark!
Reading is important to the development of your child, and as a parent, you probably want to do everything you can to encourage your child to read. One fun way to encourage reading is to make homemade bookmarks. This will …[Continue]
Your Child’s Lunch Pal
To make the “lunch pal”A “lunch pal” is a lunch pail that looks like a lunchtime creature. Making a “lunch pal” is similar to carving a jack-o-lantern. Only you don’t cut the features out; you glue the features on. The …[Continue]
The Personalized Lunchbox
There is a huge selection of kid’s lunch boxes with a wide variety of graphics. Whatever the popular action figure or movie is, there is a corresponding lunch box. Kids love to pick out a lunch box, partly because their …[Continue]
How to Create Fun Book Covers
Some kids are assigned to make book covers during the first week of class. Even if your kid isn’t assigned to make book covers, making them might be a fun activity. It will also help to preserve the book.You can …[Continue]
Homemade Book Bag From Last Year’s School Clothes
Your child’s book bag is one of their most important possessions. It is the one thing that helps them make the daily transition from school to home and back again. The feelings that kids have about their book bags might …[Continue]
Back to School Book Cover
Once you have the book bag ready, there will have to be some books to go in it. You can make homemade book covers to protect and personalize your child’s books. Any kind of paper can be used to make …[Continue]
