Spiral Notebook Make Over

I can hardly believe it's about time for school to start up. My first reaction is "ugh". Because this also means I'm back to work now. Yep. I had to go back to work this week. No more summer break. No more sleeping in until 6:30am (yep, that's sleeping in for us.) No more crafts and fun and playing all week. It's back to the grind. My second reaction is still "ugh!"

So we've been gathering all of our school supplies and trying to get in the last of the crafting before it's back to our routine. And when I saw these great spiral notebook "make overs" I thought I would give them a try.

I'll be honest with you. At first I thought "that might be kind of tricky bending the wire and removing it." I hesitated a little bit but then thought "what the heck". I'd give it a try.

This is what we started out with. Yep, just the normal old spiral notebooks. They are 25 cents right now. That's pretty cheap.

I opened an empty cereal box. We've been saving our cereal boxes for awhile because I knew we were going to make these.

I measured the front of the spiral notebook and then cut the box down to size.

I carefully bent the metal wire so it was easier to remove from the notebook.

It was a piece of cake!

Then I removed the top cover and placed it on the cereal box so I could mark the holes.

Not too bad so far, right?

Then I used my hole punch and punched out the holes. I used my Cropodile (which is the best tool EVER!) But any hole punch will do.

Then run the wire back through the holes and bend the end so it won't slip out. And there you have it.

Seeing all these next to each other like this I guess it's no secret that we love cereal.

My kids are so excited to take these to school. Much cooler than the normal spiral notebook and there won't be any mistaking which notebook is theirs!

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