19 Back-to-School Crafts to Prepare Kids for School in an Exciting, Fun Way

As classes will soon be starting in a few weeks, some kids may feel excited about it, but others may feel bummed that all the fun of their summer vacation will soon end. Others may even feel conflicted with both feelings. However they may feel, a fun way they can get prepared for school
would be back-to-school crafts.

Back-to-School Crafts: Kids Would Enjoy Doing and Love Using

While we can't make the days move faster nor move slower, in the meantime, kids can cope by doing fun back-to-school crafts. Kids who can't wait for the coming school year can have a little back-to-school activity that can keep them occupied before the school year actually starts. These crafts can also cheer up the kids who are bummed about the summer fun ending and make them realize that the coming school year, too, has a lot of fun in store for them.

Kids would enjoy doing these back-to-school crafts. And they would love using the fantastic finished products when classes finally start. These crafts would make them look forward to the coming school year and have them prepared not only with some cool school supplies and whatnot but also a positive mindset for the coming school year.

Creating back-to-school crafts is also something kids can enjoy doing with their parents. It can be a means of bonding time for them. And it's not a very costly activity, as the materials needed to do these crafts are either only affordable, already available at home, or recyclable.

There are a variety of back-to-school crafts you can do, whether it's creating or designing school supplies for achieving more personal touches or creating keepsakes for commemorating the beginning of the school year. You can find them here in this article.

But if you have a little pre-K or kindergarten student and wish for less complicated back-to-school crafts, there are simple but also fun crafts on here, too, that your little one can do with your assistance. The pre-K and kindergarten crafts are more on preparing pre-K and kindergarten students for school. But if you think your little one can manage with the other crafts, you and your little one are free to enjoy creating them.

Read further to check out the various back-to-school crafts that have been prepared in this article for kids and parents to enjoy. You might find some crafts you may want to do or maybe get some inspiration from and make something more your own according to your liking. Each featured craft has a link provided for redirecting to the demonstration of the procedure. So when a craft appeals to you, just click on its link and get crafting.

School Supplies

Storages and Organizers

Pizza Pencil Case

If your kid loves eating pizza, then they might also love to store their writing and coloring materials in this pizza pencil case. Putting together this pencil case is very easy. Sewing isn't even required. You simply have to draw the parts of the pizza pencil case on some felt, cut them out, and glue gun them together along with velcro strips for closure. 

Watermelon Pencil Box

For more storage space and a more fruity design, you can go with the watermelon pencil box. This pencil box comes with three separate compartments and dividers too. So a kid can put so many pens, pencils, markers, crayons, and other school supplies in it, and they all can be kept well organized.

This pencil box can actually be made with only cardboard, a recycled one even. But when designed with watermelon details and a cute little face using colored paper, the result is adorable.

 Bicycle Pen Holder

 Every student could need a pen holder. But the bicycle pen holder is an awesome decorative pen holder that kids would definitely love, especially those who love biking.

This is made mostly of rolled recycled paper and cardboard held together with glue, but it's sturdy enough to contain writing and coloring materials and other school supplies. The procedure for this is only simple, involving some cutting and rolling pieces of paper using a barbeque stick, flattening a couple of rolled paper, assembling the bike figure and container, painting it with colors preferred, and making final touches with beads.

 Tin Can Organizer

 Don't throw away tin cans after emptying them. The tin cans that once contained your food can be recycled for organizing pens, pencils, markers, crayons, paintbrushes, etc. You can give tin cans a new purpose and a new look by applying some decorations on them like scrapbook paper, beads, etc., and assembling them side by side with a glue gun to create an aesthetic organizer. 

Popsicle Sticks Bookmarks

Disney Princesses Popsicle Sticks Bookmarks

 Disney princesses are loved by most girls. If you have a little Disney princesses fan, the Disney princesses popsicle sticks bookmarks would be perfect for her. For sure, she’d love painting the Disney princesses on popsicle sticks and using the popsicle sticks as bookmarks.

 Minions and Hulk Popsicle Sticks Bookmarks

 Boys aren't left out on the fun of painting on popsicle sticks. As there are also the Minions and Hulk popsicle sticks bookmarks perfect for them, whether they are fans of the funny Minions or the strong Hulk.

 Pencil Popsicle Sticks Bookmarks

 If you'd rather opt for popsicle sticks bookmarks that are more school-themed, there are the pencil popsicle sticks bookmarks. Or for a more colorful set of bookmarks, you can make crayon popsicle sticks bookmarks instead.

 Notebook Decor

Fuzzy Monsters Notebooks

 Monsters aren't always under kids’ beds to scare the kids. Sometimes, they can be kids' cute study buddies, like the monsters in these fuzzy monsters notebooks. They're super cute notebooks designed using yarn, ribbons, felt, and cardboard. The process would require a little patience and careful crafting, but the results are fantastic.

 Variety of Designs

 If you find the aforementioned notebook design too complicated, there are also easier designs that are just as aesthetic like the cute panda design, otherworldly unicorn design, fascinating laboratory flasks design, etc. Each design also only requires a few materials, some even recyclable.

 Binder Covers

Washi Tape Binder Covers

 With the different designs that washi tapes come in, they would be great for decorating binders with different patterns. Just get some washi tapes with designs you like that would look good together. Then you would be sticking them side by side on a stock board that is cut accordingly to fit on every side of the binder. 

Backpack Decor

Yarn Backpack Keychains

 The yarn backpack keychains are striking accessories that can add more aesthetic to a backpack with their colorfulness and cute, fluffy designs. All that is needed for this craft are some yarn, embroidery floss, pom-pom balls, needle, thread, and keychain rings. This craft's procedure only involves some snips, yarn and embroidery floss grouping and wrapping, trimming, slight sewing, tying, and finally, attaching to keychain rings—just as simple as that, you'll easily achieve these yarn backpack keychains.

 Backpack Patches

 You can make any plain backpack look more interesting by adding these backpack patches. Designing these patches can be done using denim, even recycled ones, and textile paint.

When making a design, you'd have to apply the paint on the denim's lighter side. When your designs have dried, you'd stick pins on the other side of the patches using liquid silicone for attaching them to a backpack. Or you may also attach them using an iron-on adhesive.

 Backpack Designs

 Another way to customize a plain backpack is by using a variety of affordable materials like textile paint, gold foil, faux fur, and even thumbtacks. Yes, you can design a backpack with thumbtacks too, like turning them into studs. You'll just have to fold away its sharp part and run a glue gun over it to add coverage for safety. I'm talking about some of the most popular DIY backpack designs such as the watercolor backpack, studded and faux fur straps backpack, and gold foil backpack.

 Snack and Lunch Storage

Silly Face Sandwich Bags

What's better than delicious food prepared by mom for snack time or lunch at school? Delicious food prepared by mom packed in silly face sandwich bags! Designed with silly faces using googly eyes and markers, these silly face sandwich bags can bring about for kids a happy snack time or lunch at school and even lighten their mood during tough times.

 Keepsakes

Popsicle Sticks School Bus Picture Frame

We may often post pictures on social media. But for a change, why not also try creating a popsicle sticks school bus picture frame for your kid's first day of school photos so they can be displayed at your home too. You may even do this every start of a new school year.

This photo frame can be easily made by sticking together some colored popsicle sticks to make the school bus shape. Or if you want, you may even paint the popsicle sticks yourself. Then you'd add pink foam paper for the bus lights as a final touch.

Moreover, this can be stuck on metal if you put a magnet at the back. Or you may also attach at the back of the frame another popsicle stick that has been cut accordingly to make it stand.

 Back-to-School Photo Prop

 The back-to-school photo prop is something that can make taking your kid's first day of school photo much more fun. And creating it is just as fun too. It's a wooden frame decorated with some sidewalk chalk, some wooden letters, and a little chalkboard. It requires much careful effort though. But it is an awesome prop that can be used for taking photos for the first day of school every year.

 Easy Crafts for Pre-K and Kindergarten Kids to Enjoy

Paper Backpack

 Super easy to create for little kids, the paper backpack only requires cutting out some shapes to create different parts of a backpack and attaching them to a paper bag. It also allows you to recycle paper bags from your last shopping if you have some. With the finished product, kids can play pretend they're at school, fill the backpack with their vocabulary, and even store their review materials.

 Back-to-School Bus Paper Chain Countdown

 The back-to-school bus paper chain countdown can represent the number of days remaining before the start of classes, making kids aware of the nearing of classes and allowing them to become better prepared when it comes. It is made with colored paper to form a school bus and paper chains attached at the bus's bottom, which can be hung on a wall. When a day has passed, a piece of the paper chain can be removed, and the remaining pieces would represent the remaining days.

 School Bus Discovery Bottle

 If you're fond of creating cute crafts that involve recycling, another great option that allows you to recycle is the school bus discovery bottle. Through this craft, you can transform a recycled or upcycled bottle into a discovery bottle with a bus design.

The bottle would be filled with yellow colored paper that had been cut up into tiny pieces or any other yellow things you can find even. Once it has been filled, you can add the finishing touches on the outer part of the bottle to fully achieve a bus design.

Conclusion

 Whether your kid can't wait for classes to start, feels bummed that summer is ending, or both, a good and not to mention a fun way to cope is by creating back-to-school crafts. Kids who are excited for classes to start have a good mindset. But it's also understandable how some kids feel bummed that summer is ending. There are always new great things to come after the ending of something, and back-to-school crafts can help kids realize that.

 

Author’s Bio:

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