10 Best Back To School Hacks And Crafts To Impress Your Teacher

Are you ready to start the new school year with a bang? We have something special in store for you! Today, we’re excited to share the best back-to-school hacks and crafts that will not only impress your teacher and principal, but also make your school experience even more exciting!

1. Brilliant ruler

You will need:

• Plastic envelope
• Ruler
• Glitter
• Hair straightener

How to do it:

• Cut the sealed side of the plastic envelope.
• Seal the open side with masking tape and then iron, leaving a small opening in one of the corners.
• Through the opening you left, first pour in the glitter and then the clear glue.
• Seal the open space again with the iron and attach your creation to a ruler.

2. Grid tracer

You will need:

• Toe separators for pedicure
• Markers

How to do it:

• Place a marker in each of the toe slots of the pedicure toe separator.
• Once you have them all arranged, place them on the board or paper and trace four lines at once.

3. Emergency compass

You will need:

• Markers
• Elastic band

How to do it:

• Place two markers inside the elastic band, one with a cap and one without.
• Press the one with the cap firmly against the paper, as it will be the center of the circle.
• Keeping the band taut, use the marker without the cap to draw a circumference around the capped marker.

4. Nail polish pen

You will need:

• Pen
• Nail polish
• Hot glue

How to do it:

• Disassemble the pen, remove it from its tube, and cut it to the size of the nail polish bottle.
• Insert the trimmed pen into the nail polish bottle.
• Seal the remaining space at the mouth of the nail polish bottle with hot glue to secure it in place.

5. Tablet holder

You will need:

• Folder
• Rubber bands
• Hot glue

How to do it:

• Glue two rubber bands horizontally on the inside of the back cover, one at the top and one at the bottom.
• Let it dry completely before placing your tablet inside.

6. Unicorn headphone case

You will need:

• 3D Pen
• Headphone case
• Painter’s tape

How to do it:

• Cover the headphone case with painter’s tape.
• Completely cover it by tracing lines with the 3D pen.
• Once it’s dried, add details like eyes and mouth.
• Create a horn on the top by making a cone with the 3D pen. Add flowers and leaves around the horn made with the 3D pen.

7. Stress-relief notebook

You will need:

• Notebook
• Ziplock bag
• Foam sheet
• Hydrogel beads
• Slime
• Glue

How to do it:

• Place hydrogel beads and slime inside the ziplock bag.
• Attach the bag to the center of the notebook cover.
• Cut a rectangle from the foam sheet the size of the notebook cover, and also cut a decorative shape in the center.
• Glue the foam rectangle to the notebook.

8. Custom stickers

You will need:

• Paper and colored pencils or markers
• Wax paper
• Sticker paper

How to do it:

• Draw your desired design with the colored pencils or markers and cut along its edge.
• Place it on the wax paper and cover it with the sticker paper.
• Cut the design following the shape of the drawing but leaving at least a half-centimeter margin.
• Stick it like a regular sticker in the desired location.

9. Watermelon notebook

You will need:

• Notebook
• Felt fabric
• Glue

How to do it:

• Cut the outside of the notebook cover in a semicircular shape.
• From the felt fabric, cut a green piece the same size as the notebook, a white one a few centimeters smaller, and a red one a few centimeters smaller than the white piece.
• Glue the layers of felt onto the cover from largest to smallest.
• Cut seed shapes and place them as desired on top of the red felt.

10. Portable copier

You will need:

• Balsa wood
• Clear CD case

How to do it:

• Cut three pieces from the balsa wood to create a stand, making a small notch to insert the transparent CD case cover.
• Once the stand is assembled, place the CD case cover and position the phone on the stand with the image you want to transfer to paper.
• Place a piece of paper on the table beneath the CD case cover and, following the silhouette of the reflected image on the transparent CD case cover, trace onto the paper.

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