Back to School

Going back to school or sending your kids back to school can be expensive and boring. With all the specific school supplies, shopping for these supplies can look so bland and not personal. Use your skills and spruce up their supplies with little techniques and very inexpensive tools and items.

Also, think about all the paper that children throw away during the school year. The schools are never really "green". Instead of throwing everything away (or keeping everything in lots of boxes), use certain items to decorate with. Make a pretty collage of works for them to keep to look back and see what they have done. Grandparents LOVE to have things that their grandchildren have made. Put together another collage or scrapbook page and put it in a frame for them. Scrapbooking is GREAT for these little projects that your children do in school and bring home. Cropping around the main parts of projects and incorporating pictures and phrases will make beautiful pieces of art to hang around the house (like brag arts).

Stay green and have fun shopping for school. School can be COOL, but sometimes you have to help it along.