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 and yet super fun customized notebooks!

Step one: 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.

Step two: Draw the design on the cardboard using the pencil. We used a sticky note as pattern for the square.

Step three: Cut out the design and center the design on your chosen notebook

Step four: 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.

Step five: 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.

Step six: To avoid smudging, allow to air dry for several minutes before touching the marker.

Step seven: 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.

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Materials needed:

• 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