How to Make a School Supply Box Craft Idea for Kids

How to Make a School Supply Box Craft Idea for Kids

Get your kids excited about going back to school with this cute and functional organizer. From crayons to calculators, this sturdy box will keep supplies handy for your busy youngsters. This is an affordable craft so it can be totally customized each year according to their current interests and ever-changing style.

Crafts Materials Needed:

Shoe Box

3 to 5 Colors of Construction Paper

Scissors

Clear Tape

School Theme Stickers

Colored Markers

Paint (optional)

Plastic Peanut Butter Lid

Frozen Juice Can

Instant Pudding Box

Glue

Decorations

Cover the bottom of the shoe box with construction paper, using tape to secure the edges and corners. Decorate the sides with school theme stickers and use colored markers to personalize the overall look. Next, cover the shoe box lid in a different color of construction paper, securing all edges and corners with tape.

The peanut butter lid, juice can, and pudding box will be the trays on top for organizing supplies. Prepare the trays by cleaning them thoroughly and making sure they are dry. Most peanut butter lids are already a nice primary color so you can choose to leave it as is. For the other two, remove the tops from the containers. Either paint them or cover them with a different color of construction paper.

Attach the trays to the top of the shoe box with glue, paying careful attention to how the weight will be distributed once they are holding supplies. In other words, don’t line them all up along one edge or your box will fall over when used.

After the trays have completely dried, use more school theme stickers, treasures from summer vacation, and colored markers to complete the decorations. This is a good time to allow your child to add a little funkiness to his or her box. Glue on pom-poms, glitter, googly eyes, tiny creatures, or happy meal toys. Keep in mind that your child will be using this box every day at homework time so it needs to be something that is fun to look at and is all about them.

When everything is in place, the decorations have been completed, and it is completely dry, fill the box with school supplies. Place the lid on top and organize the most used items in the trays. They can hold almost anything your child will need.

One great thing I have discovered since my child started preschool with his own school supply box is the portability. If he wants his Nana to help him with his homework one night, he really enjoys packing up his supplies and holding his box on his lap in the car. There is a sense of pride that comes with having your own little box of supplies and he looks forward to homework every day. Crafting with your child is a time to bond and I hope your kids will enjoy this project the whole school year. Be sure to pass this idea along to moms who home school as they have an even greater challenge in keeping supplies from taking over their entire house.

Jacilyn Wheeler—Christian, Mom, Virtual Assistant

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How to Make a School Book Cover Out of a Decorated Gift Bag

How to Make a School Book Cover Out of a Decorated Gift Bag

As my kids get older and older, there seems to be more and more books that we need to cover. I have become a pro at turning brown grocery store bags into neat little school book covers. Yesteray, I covered my son’s Math book cover into a homemade comic book cover.  Today, I decided to cover my daughter’s book with book cover made from a decorated gift bag. I will detail how I turned a gift bag into a homemade school textbook cover in the tutorial / article below.

(1) First, get out a gift bag that you don’t need anymore. I used a gift bag that my daughter received a birthday present in.

(2) You will now need to cut out either the right or left side of the gift bag and also the bottom of the gift bag. Look at the blue lines above. (Please note that in the picture above, I had already cut the side of the bag open.)

(3) After you cut out the side and bottom of the bag, it should lay out easily, like you see above.

(4) Now lay the book in the center of the gift bag…or if the bag is big enough, place the book where you think the decoration will meet the front of the book. Trace the bottom and top of the book onto the gift bag’s surface.

(5) Now fold the top of the bag down and the bottom of the bag up so that they meet the 2 lines that you drew in step 5.

(6) Now place the book back onto the gift bag (on top of the newly created flaps).

(7) Open up your book so that you can fold the gift bag over your book’s cover.

(8) Next, fold your gift bag’s flaps over your book book’s cover. The book cover should slide into the book’s flaps that you just created.

(9) This is what it should look like (above) when the one side of the book’s covers is slid into the brown paper bag flaps. You should take some scotch tape to tape the flaps onto the front of the gift bag. A few pieces should do the trick.

The other side of the book’s cover is harder to fit into the gift  bag flaps, so you will probably have to slide the bag over the book cover.

(11) If all works out well, your book cover should look like this. If you had problems, you might need to use more tape. This is fine too. Ask your parents for help if you just can’t do it. Don’t feel bad, it is a bit tough the first few times you try to do your own book cover (for parents who are out of practice too).

Good Luck.  Also visit yesterday’s post Homemade Comic Book Cover From a Grocery Store Bag

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How to Make a Comics Covered School Book Cover with a Brown Grocery Bag

How to Make School Book Covers Out of a Brown Grocery Store Bag – Make it Fun with Comics Strips and Contact Paper

As my kids get older and older, there seems to be more and more books that we need to cover. I have become a pro at turning brown grocery store bags into neat little school book covers. I decided to turn my son’s Math book cover into a fun comic book cover. I still remember my Charlie Brown metal lunch box from when I was a kid and I read the comic strips on that lunch box a zillion times when I was bored at school. Although I don’t want my son to read the comic strips on his book during Math class, I figure that there will be times at school when he is bored and will enjoy looking at these comic strips. I covered the book cover with contact paper to protect the comics. I also put a word search on there, which can be done over and over again since the contact paper can be used as a wipe-able surface for washable markers. I hope you enjoy this comic strip grocery store bag school book cover project (wow – that would be hard to say in one breath).

(1) First, get out a store brown grocery bag.

(2) Next, cut out the right side of the bag (the creases form a rectangle) … cut this side out.

(3) Now cut out the bottom of the bag too.

(4) After you have cut out the bottom and right side of the bag, you will have a rectangle shape. Lay this out as flat as you are able to.

(5) Put your school textbook in the center of the brown bag.  Trace the bottom and top of the book onto the brown grocery store bag.

(6) Now fold the top of the bag down and the bottom of the bag up so that they meet the 2 lines that you drew in step 5.

(7) Now place the book back onto the brown bag (on top of the newly created flaps).

(8) Next, fold your brown paper bag flaps over your book book’s cover. The book cover should slide into the book’s flaps that you just created.

(9) This is what it should look like (above) when the one side of the book’s covers is slid into the brown paper bag flaps.

(10) The other side of the book’s cover is harder to fit into the brown paper bag flaps, so you will probably have to slide the bag over the book cover (like shown above).

(11) If all works out well, your book cover should look like this. If you had problems, you might need to use tape. This is fine too. Ask your parents for help if you just can’t do it. Don’t feel bad, it is a bit tough the first few times you try to do your own book cover (for parents who are out of practice too).

(12) If you want to make things a bit fun for your kids, then take out their comic magazines and paste them onto the brown paper book cover.

(13) It is also a lot of fun to paste on puzzles and quizzes to give them activities to do when they are bored or done with work at school.

(14) Anything with fun illustrations or cartoons can be pasted onto the inside flap covers too. No need to waste good brown paper bag space.

(15) Don’t forget about the back of your child’s book too. After I pasted on all of the cartoons, comics, puzzles, trivia quizzes, etc, I took out a sheet of contact paper and covered the entire book. Now the book cover is protected and my son can do the puzzles over and over again. Good luck.

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