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Homemade Personalized Pencil Case

A pencil case with your kid's name on it!
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Invite your kid to jazz up her back-to-school supplies with a personalized pencil case.
A pencil case: Canvas, foam, whatever you can find.
Iron-on ink jet dark t-shirt transfers: We like Avery brand.
Staples
Iron
A word processing program: Like Microsoft Word.
Ink jet photo printer: If you don't have one at home, you'll have to make at trip to Kinko's or some other printing store to print
Fabric and ribbon: Fun, colorful scrap pieces you can use to decorate the pencil case.
Scissors
Embellishments: Like rhinestones, beads, silk flowers, flower appliqués, etc.
Hot glue gun and glue sticks: Kids and hot glue don't mix, so make sure you do all the gluing!
1 Help your kid pick a digital picture (or three) to iron onto his pencil case. It can be of your kid or your kid's favorite thing: Spongebob, a princess, a Ferrari, chicken nuggets, whatever... You can use a picture from the stash on your hard drive or you can help you kid search for one on Google. Save the images on your computer.

2 Next, show your kid how to put the pictures in a Microsoft Word document. Just open a blank Word document, click "insert" then click on "picture" and "from file." Search your computer to find the pictures and click on them to add them to the document.

3 When you've got all of the pictures you want on the page, print the page on the iron-on paper using a photo printer.

4 Have your kid cut the pictures out.

5 Then, plug in the iron and hot glue gun (far away from your kids!) and prepare to start decorating!

6 While you're getting the hot stuff ready, have your kid look through ribbon and fabric to decide how he wants to decorate his case.

7 Have him cut a piece of fabric as big as the pencil case to use as his background. He can then start to arrange more fabric (if he wants) and the cut-out photos onto the big piece of fabric.

8 When he's got his design down, iron the picture on to the fabric he's chosen.

9 Next, use the hot glue gun to glue the whole she-bang onto the pencil case.

10 Glue on the rest of the embellishments wherever your kid wants them to go.

11 When you're all finished, put pencils, markers, erasers and glue sticks in your kid's pencil cases and send him to school!

While you're searching for an image for your kid's pencil case, go ahead and save a bunch of images that he loves. It's best to print a bunch of images at once (so you don't waste iron-on paper) and you can always use them later for t-shirts or whatever. Have your kid make some cool beaded pencil toppers or some salt dough or beaded pens to go with her pencil case!

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