Personalized Notebooks

Recently I've seen a bunch of personalized notebooks listed on some deal sites. The notebooks are pretty, but at the same time, even on sale I couldn't fathom spending $10+ on a spiral for a kid!! With school starting in less than a month for my nephews I decided to make them one each, just so they could have a "fun" workbook. They haven't received their school supply list yet, so I only made one in case their teachers didn't allow them....I remember a year or so ago when I took my oldest nephew school supply shopping and there were 3 or so composition notebooks on his list. I remember asking him which colors he wanted, and he told me it didn't matter because  when he brought them in they didn't keep them, but that the notebooks went into a classroom bin that the teacher would pull out when they needed them, anything leftover would be for the teacher to keep for the following year. I guess things have definitely changed since I've been in grade school, but I don't remember anything other than tissue boxes and possibly crayons/markers/pencils going into the classroom bin!

Plain spiral notebooks

Target was having a sale on spiral notebooks this week- the small ones were only 49 cents! I grabbed two of those, and also a larger notebook (that was on sale for a dollar!) and figured I could do something simple and fun. I ended up making my nephews with their names on it, along with some vinyl cutouts of their interests! For my oldest nephew I cut out a baseball player in vinyl, and for my younger nephew I cut out a skateboarder! With the extra notebook, I simply cut out a bird frame and along the inside flap added three tiny ladybugs "walking" along the bottom!

Personalized spiral notebooks with vinyl

They turned out pretty cute, and if their teachers allow it, I may make them a few extra ones once we figure out how many they'll need this year!