This is the 3rd in a series of post on back to school art and craft for kids. If you’ve missed the previous projects, it’s not too late to start crafting on versatile ribbon bulletin boards and decorative lunch bags!

For today’s project, we’re going to continue the theme of taking something ordinary and customizing it to our own taste.  The result is an one of a kind object that your kids will love to use all year long.  Our object of desire today?  Notebooks.

Ready?  Here’s what you’ll need to do.

Customized notebooks supplies:

1. Some notebooks or composition books
2. Pretty craft paper
3. Scissors
4. Glue
5. Linen tape

Customized notebooks how-to:

1. This is a simple way to add some punch to basic notebooks.
2. Cut two pieces of craft paper in the shape of the notebook.  One for the front; one for the back.  The paper should have enough room to leave a 1-inch border around the notebook.
3. With the pretty side down, apply glue all over the craft paper.
4. Carefully position the notebook on top & center of one craft paper.  Press the notebook down firmly.
5. Repeat for the other side of the notebook.
6. Trim the excessive craft paper from the edges of the notebook.
7. Cut a piece of linen tape, slightly longer than the spine of the notebook.
8. Stick the linen tape to the spine of the notebook. Cut off the excessive tape.

Do you want to take it up a notch?  You can decorate the notebooks with all kinds of material like felt, buttons, stickers and more.  Visit the gallery for more inspiration!

That’s it for today.  Stay tuned for more back to school art and craft for kids in the next few posts.

Tagged as: back to school craft, customized notebooks, Easy Crafts, Free Craft Ideas for Kids, notebook, stationery

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Hiya!  By now I hope you’ve enjoyed my previous posts in the easy preschool children craft ideas series.  If you’ve missed them, be sure to catch these fun projects here – #1 Pressed Flower Picture, #2 Quick Stamp Magnets and #3 Pasta Jewelry.  Today we’ll explore our fourth project – Botton Clips.  This is along the concept as the Stamp Magnets – your kids will enjoy turning ordinary paper or hair pins into objects of desire by decorating them with cute buttons.  These clips are fun to make and great to give away as small party favors.

Button Clips supplies:

1. Paper clips in different sizes.  The large ones are good for bookmarks.  Alternatively, you can also use hair clips or hair pins.
2. A collection of buttons – Choose various styles from your stash of buttons or find vintage ones at a thrift store.
3. Glue

Button Clips instructions:

1. Glue the buttons onto the clips.
2. Let them dry out
3. Admire.

As usual, here are some photos of button clips around the web for your inspiration:

This is the fourth of five preschool children craft ideas brought to you by Kid-Craft-Project.com.  If you liked what you’ve read, you can read more about easy preschool craft ideas at Kid Craft Project.  In the final blog post, I’ll show you how to beautiful beach treasure pendants!

Tagged as: button clips, Easy Crafts, Preschool Craft Ideas, stationery

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