We have collected the most interesting and creative ideas how you can turn boring ones into original accessories by decorating them to your taste and color. You will be surprised how much more pleasant it will be to use such updated DIY school supplies even outside of school.

The school year has come to an end and you can forget about school until September. But do not rush to throw away boring pencils, pens and notebooks. After spending a little time, you can get either bright and interesting school supplies that will be a pleasure to run your own, which, by the way, can also be very interestingly decorated using our ideas.

The simplest pencils, PVA glue and glitter are all you need to give a second life to ordinary school supplies.

Pens decorated with delicate watercolor-patterned feathers - what could be more original?

By the way, feathers for such pens can be made of paper by coloring it in. Then they will even on paper convey all the lightness and weightlessness of the real ones.


To make such interesting "brushes" on the tips of pencils, you only need decorative paper and thread. Yes, yes, it's that simple! Cover a regular pencil with colored paper or decorative tape, but so that the paper hangs a little more from the end of the pencil. Then drag it over with a thread and cut it to create a fringe.


What could be nicer than a pencil or a pen with an ever-blooming flower? The chip of this decor, of course, is in, which should be done in advance and attached to the pencil with tape. The pencil itself can be wrapped in green paper to create a twig.


School supplies decor: how to decorate school notebooks

You can decorate a school notebook with a fabric cover. Among the advantages of such covers: they are pleasant to the touch, you can make additional pockets both inside and outside, a variety of textures and patterns and, of course, a simple execution technique. This notebook can be used in the summer as a notebook or personal diary.

Embroidery on a notebook. It sounds strange, but it looks very beautiful and unusual. This decor is suitable for notebooks with plain and soft cardboard covers.

Stamps and drawings with paints can be done not only in an album for drawing, but also on the covers of notebooks, in order to decorate these same school notebooks in this way. Try it and you will love it!

Decorative duct tape is also great for decorating school notebooks, folders, book covers, and scrapbooks. Thin strips of tape can be glued straight or diagonally to create your own special pattern.

You can decorate an ordinary notebook with a photo collage of your favorite photos or pictures for a summer mood. The link is complete.

Girls will especially love this idea of ​​decorating school supplies. The openwork decor for the cover of the notebook was created for romantic schoolgirls.

School supplies decor: how to decorate school paper clips and stationery clips

You can use brightly colored decorative duct tape to decorate your school clips and clips. In addition, for such a decor of school supplies, very little material is needed, and this small school thing will please the eye for a long time.

The decorative adhesive tape can be tied to a paper clip or attached to it in the form of a flag. Such beautiful paper clips can even be used as.


Will look nice as a decoration for school supplies, especially paper clips. These will cheer up with bright colors and decorate the school office in an original way.

Watch online how to decorate school supplies with your own hands

Now you have enough ideas for decorating your own. These and other ideas on how to decorate school notebooks, pencils, pens and other useful stationery will help create the mood for the summer and come in handy in preparation for the new school year.

DIY school supplies familyr_style wrote in August 30th, 2012

Text:Victoria Novikova, DGV

While some parents buy their children a huge number of notebooks, pens and pencils, other parents manage to save money by creating some of the necessary for school with their own hands - such stationery is cheaper, more unusual, and much more beautiful than standard ones. In this review - three sites where you can learn how to make stationery at home for primary and secondary school students in the "Back to school" style.


From bookmark to diary
http://kaboose.com

A student, regardless of age, needs a properly organized space: everything is at hand, nothing is lost, if something needs to be written down urgently, there is always a paper surface and a pen. On kaboose.com you can find many ideas for rational organization of space. So, for example, there is detailed instructions for making a writing board for notes, a pen holder, a cute craft pencil case and many other useful things. As with most of the sites I write about, most things can be created from scrap materials.


The site has an excellent collection of tips for hand-made classes with students high school... Here you can learn how to make a silhouette portrait lapma like in an 18th century boudoir, handmade Christmas lights, a homemade hula hoop, a school notebook or a unique tea bag.

The DTK website has a lot of craft ideas for younger students. Basically, this is what parents in childhood most likely did themselves, but eventually forgot all these "little secrets". For example, how to make a decoration for a regular ballpoint pen from down and feathers. Figuring out what to teach a child, you remember how you were once.

From various means. This requires special materials and tools. For example, someone creates interesting styles of clothing, someone makes unusual furniture. There are those who make multifunctional household appliances. The result is original masterpieces that cannot be found in a store. Of course, you will need: engineering skills, rich imagination, the necessary details and patience. Making such things with your own hands is called Diy. This culture appeared in the middle of the twentieth century. "Diy" means DIY.

It is not surprising that young schoolchildren were also interested in Diy. After all, the implementation of your own ideas allows you to feel pride and self-respect.

Schoolchildren, together with their parents, create a convenient DIY for school with their own hands. These are beautiful pencil cases where stationery is stored, and spacious organizers, and colorful coasters, and so on.

How to make a pencil case yourself

To make DIY for school with your own hands, you can use containers, boxes, containers of any shape and material. For example, to make a beautiful pencil case, you can take a candy box. The ruler is measured required size to fit both pens and pencils. The excess is cut off with scissors. Appearance can be decorated with a beautiful bright decorative paper or can be painted. You can also add accessories such as beads, beads, lace ribbons. If there is artistic ability, you can draw interesting picture... For the convenience of opening and closing the resulting pencil case, you must attach a hook or button.

The pencil case can also be made of fabric. Used threads, a needle, a cord, a zipper lock. First, a pencil case pattern is made with the right dimensions... Then everything is sewn together. The cord is needed so that the stationery is held under it. The pencil case will be closed with a lock or Velcro.

The value of DIY things

Hand-made things are always highly valued. Therefore, they are suitable both for their own use and as a gift to loved ones. Moreover, made using stickers with characters from your favorite cartoons, DIY for school with your own hands will appeal to elementary school students, and they will happily carry it with them to school. This will be, in a way, an incentive for good studies.

It is very funny to get a liquid pencil case using oil, glitter, transparent files and so on. In order for children to be more patient and develop their perseverance, DIY hobby for school with their own hands will help. Photos of possible crafts can be found in our article.

All moms and dads that have children - junior high school students, are made, together with them, simple and complex crafts to school. Naturally, this is an excellent excuse to spend time with your child in a pleasant and exciting way, to leave the routine and engage in an interesting creative process.

Techniques, topics and materials, the most diverse are possible. Like the rules, in schools and kindergartens, appropriate crafts are made for various events.

What can you make a craft at home

For the purpose of hand-made crafts for the school, it is not at all necessary to have some unique or imported materials. The usual resources that are available in any home are entirely suitable. You will also need tools corresponding to a certain craft for work.


Autumn is the most the right time years for blanks natural material, in order to subsequently make interesting crafts do it yourself in primary school on a variety of topics.

The task of parents will be not only the mental development of their child, but also persistent gradual work on the importance of adherence to accuracy, teaching the planning of their actions. It is also very important to teach the child to bring the work begun to its logical conclusion, then later it turns out, although not great, but his own unique masterpiece, which has no analogues.

To make it easier to make souvenirs with your own hands, photos of crafts for the school, which can be found on the worldwide network, will help with this. You don't need to copy, you just need to understand the technique of work and do something of your own.

By the same principle that postcards are made, it is possible to make a bright panel. But in this case, to make the souvenir look complete, you also need to think about the frame.

An excellent option would be a ready-made frame from a tree. Provided that there is none, you can make it yourself from plain cardboard suitable color by decorating as you wish.

Bright crafts will become great gift for many different holidays, for moms and dads, grandparents, brothers and sisters, classmates and classmates, or simple acquaintances. An interesting idea is the volumetric souvenirs made from thermoplastics or plasticine. They also make pretty cute fridge magnets.


Step-by-step making crafts for school

Unique, multi-colored moths will become a designer decoration of any school office and your own apartment. To make them you need:

  • multi-colored cardboard;
  • rolls of toilet paper;
  • multi-colored ribbons;
  • special eyes for crafts;
  • multi-colored paper;
  • glue.

Outline of the creation of a masterpiece:

From the beginning, it is necessary to cut off a rectangle about 13-16 cm from the cardboard. Then coat it with glue along the ends from the inside and outside. In addition, glue is applied to the middle of the toilet paper tube.

The rectangle is tightly wrapped around the roll and pressed so that it sticks well. Based on this, the body of a moth is obtained.

Naturally, all moths have antennae. For them, cut off 2 strips of 8 cm long from the ribbon. Nodules are made at the tips. The antennae must be attached to the body of the moth from the inside of the roll.

The wings are cut from cardboard, absolutely any shiny color. After that, they are decorated with figurines prepared with multi-colored paper, which are glued in a chaotic shape.

Already at the end, special eyes are glued and the souvenir is made!

Master class on school crafts - "fish from dough"

You will need:

  • waterproof varnish;
  • multi-colored acrylic paints;
  • a brush for glue and paints;
  • toothpick;
  • cardboard;
  • dough.

Outline of creating a unique souvenir:

First, you need to draw and accordingly cut off a drawing of a fish on cardboard. Then tear off a piece of dough, roll it into a pancake and attach a cardboard fish to it.

Now it is advisable to carefully cut off the fish figurine, hence the drawing. Small punctures are made with a toothpick to separate the fins from the tail.

A little dough rolls into a tiny ball - this is the base for the eye. After that, the ball rolls down even less and is applied on top of the eye - the basis is already the pupil.


Using a piece of dough, a fin is made and applied to the desired location. In order for all the parts to stick, it is advisable to wet the joints a little with water.

The decor of the fish is molded on the basis of the dough, for example, bright flowers or a variety of figurines.

Then the craft must be dried in the oven for about 2 hours at 45-70 degrees. Next, paint the figurine of the fish with gouache to your taste.

The finishing touch is to cover the fish with a waterproof varnish.

DIY crafts in elementary school are considered one of the most important ways to improve the creative thinking and skillful potential of children. When setting the topic of work, the teacher of labor lessons always takes into account which event is approaching or which season of the year outside the school window.

It is worth noting that all works that are made by hand can be supplemented with your own imagination and creative ideas.

Photo of crafts to school