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10 Awesome school hacks to make your life easy

In the unpredictable adventure known as school life, even the most well-prepared students can find themselves caught in the whirlwind of a challenging day or feel trapped in the boredom of monotony. That is why we have put together a series of hacks that possess the power to salvage even the most disastrous or boring of days.

1. Sparkly cover

Things you’ll need:

  • Your notebook
  • School glue
  • Salt
  • A hairdryer
  • A dropper
  • Paint of different colors

How to do it:

  • Using glue, draw the shape of your preference on the cover
  • Cover the glue with salt
  • Dry and clean the excess with the hairdryer
  • Paint the salt using the dropper

2. Cute trash can

Things you’ll need:

  • An empty can or container
  • Foamy
  • A hot glue gun

How to do it:

  • Wrap the container with the foamy and decorate with a cute face
  • Cover the lid with foamy
  • Cut a small piece of foamy and stick it to the top of the lid with hot glue, making a bridge with it
  • Use it as a trash can on your desk

3. Fluffy pen holder

Things you’ll need:

  • An empty toilet paper roll
  • Multicolor pompoms
  • Glue

How to make it:

  • Spread glue onto the paper roll
  • Stick pompoms around the roll to cover it all
  • Use it on your desk as a pencil holder

4. Rainbow pen

Things you’ll need:

  • Foamy of different colors
  • Hot glue

How to make it:

  • Cut strips of foamy of each color of the rainbow
  • Bend them to create an arch and stick the ends of each strip together
  • Put a small cloud made with foamy on each end of the rainbow arch
  • Wrap and stick piece of foamy around your pencil
  • Stick the rainbow to the top of the pencil

5. Creative notes holder

Things you’ll need:

  • A photo frame
  • Double-sided tape
  • Threads

Hot to make it:

  • Put double-sided tape on the top and bottom back side of the frame
  • Stick threads of several colors from the top to the bottom tape, leaving them tight
  • Put your notes through the threads

6. Custom shape stamps

Things you’ll need:

  • Pencils
  • A Cutter

How to make it:

  • Carve the shapes of your preference on the eraser of the pencils
  • Press the eraser on water paint and stamp the shapes on your notebooks

7. Ice pop sharpener

Things you’ll need:

  • An empty tic-tac caramels container
  • A sharpener
  • An eraser
  • A wooden popsicle
  • Foamy
  • Glue

How to make it:

  • Stick the sharpener to the inner part of the lid
  • Close the container and stick the popsicle to it
  • Stick a half circle eraser to the bottom of the container
  • Wrap the container with foamy, to simulate a melting ice pop

8. Easy way to subtract

Take the second digit of your minuend number and add it to your subtrahend number. The result will be the sum of both.


9. Colors and textures for your water bottle

Things you’ll need:

  • Your water bottle
  • Masking tape
  • Paint and brushes

How to do it:

  • Stick tape strips on your bottle, creating the patterns you like
  • Paint each space with no tape using different things: A brush, a sponge or your pencil eraser
  • Let it dry and remove the tape

10. Anywhere tip tap toe

  • Stick some tape to the cover of your notebook, making the grill of the game.
  • You can use clips of different shapes or colors as tiles to play.

Check the video for more cool school hacks and ideas

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