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Over the next month I am going to be posting Back to School ideas that are handmade. I would love to have some of you as guests with your {handmade} Back to School ideas!! It could be clothing, hair accessories, organizing ideas, lunches, supplies etc. Shoot me an email if you are interested thegunnysack@aol.com!
Here are some bright, new school supplies…wonderful right? But how can your child tell their supplies from their classmates?
By decorating them, of course!!
I went to Walmart to get some Painters Markers from Elmers and some sequins to decorate the school supplies. I bought the Pearlescent Painters with a medium tip…have you ever used Painters? I have used them for years, have 3 different packages and have used them on many different mediums.
#GlueNGlitter
To use the Elmer’s Painters, with the cap still on, shake the marker. Then, remove the cap. There will no color on the tip. Depress the marker point by holding it down on a surface and the paint will flow into the tip.
For the pencil case, I drew an initial, stripes and a star with the blue and green Painters. Sometimes the paint will not cover a shiny surface the first time.
So, after the paint dries, go back over it again with more paint. The second coat of paint will stick to the first coat!
To decorate the folder and notebook, I printed a large letter “M” in Microsoft Word and cut it out.
I put the letter on the folder and traced around it.
After I removed the letter, I added some more paint to the letter and added the word MATH.
Then, I did the same thing to the notebook.
Next, I started on the pencils. It seems like my kids pencils are always disappearing so making them recognizable is important!! Using the blue Painters marker, I drew a zig zag pattern on one of the pencils.
On the second pencil, I drew blue, green and white polka dots. I stuck sequins around the eraser end.
The pencils turned out super cute!!
For the glue sticks, I removed the Elmer’s label. There were traces of adhesive left so I used some Goo Gone to get it off.
I put blue and green polka dots with more sequins on one of the glue sticks and barber strips around the other.
Thanks for stopping by today!
This project has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Elmer’s #gluenglitter #collectivebias but all opinions and ideas are mine.
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Your kids will have the BEST supplies ever! I bet you’ll start getting some orders from their classmates
What cute ideas! And there really will be no mistaking whose they are!
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What a great idea!
That makes going back to school so much fun! I love having pretty school supplies…even for law school! haha
Awesome idea! The polka dot pencil is my fave.