These DIY Back to School Projects That Will Actually Make You Excited for School.

1 Plastic Pocket

Plastic Pocket: Kids will feel proud going back to school with supplies they’ve helped make themselves. Personalize notebooks, pencil cases, and even lunch bags with simple projects you can do together. (via Martha Stewart)

2 Loft or Bunkbed Organizer

Loft or Bunkbed Organizer: This loft bed organizer is great for holding books, reading glasses, and other small items when your ready for bed. When your done reading, just put the book in the pocket hanging on the side of the bed and go to sleep. It doesn’t clutter up things either! (via write+craft)

3 Notebook Lunch Bag

Notebook Lunch Bag: Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more (via Design Sponge)

4 Lunch Labels

Lunch Labels: Kids will feel proud going back to school with supplies they’ve helped make themselves. Personalize notebooks, pencil cases, and even lunch bags with simple projects you can do together. (via Martha Stewart)

5 School Supply Holder Notebook

School Supply Holder Notebook: Instructions to make your own DIY Smash Book using the papers and supplies you love. (via Callaloo Soup Crafts)

6 Pipe Cleaner Pencil Topper

Pipe Cleaner Pencil Topper: For a break from the pool and the hot sun outside, try this fun simple afternoon craft. Using puffy pipe cleaners, googly eyes, glue and your imagination, your (via Club Chica Circle)

7 Pocket Fold

Pocket Fold: Kids will feel proud going back to school with supplies they’ve helped make themselves. Personalize notebooks, pencil cases, and even lunch bags with simple projects you can do together. (via Martha Stewart)

8 Fabric Notepad

Fabric Notepad (via Sahnda Marie)

9 Notebook Labels

Notebook Labels: Kids will feel proud going back to school with supplies they’ve helped make themselves. Personalize notebooks, pencil cases, and even lunch bags with simple projects you can do together. (via Martha Stewart)

10 Easy Milk Jug Lunch Box

Easy Milk Jug Lunch Box: description (via Crème de la Craft)

11 Fun Handmade Pencil Toppers

Fun Handmade Pencil Toppers (via Sturdy for Common Things)

12 Covering Textbooks

Covering Textbooks: Kids will feel proud going back to school with supplies they’ve helped make themselves. Personalize notebooks, pencil cases, and even lunch bags with simple projects you can do together. (via Martha Stewart)

13 Travel Art Roll

Travel Art Roll (via Rajovilla)

14 Cork Containers

Cork Containers: Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more (via Design Sponge)

15 Notebook Keeper

Notebook Keeper: Kids will feel proud going back to school with supplies they’ve helped make themselves. Personalize notebooks, pencil cases, and even lunch bags with simple projects you can do together. (via Martha Stewart)

16 Knotted Zipper Pencil Pouch

Knotted Zipper Pencil Pouch: zipper pencil pouch tutorial, free zipper pencil pouch pattern, knotted zipper pencil pouch, make this cute zipper pencil pouch with free tutorial and pattern, pencil pouch tutorial (via see kate sew)

17 Magnetic Lunch Chart

Magnetic Lunch Chart: Kids will feel proud going back to school with supplies they’ve helped make themselves. Personalize notebooks, pencil cases, and even lunch bags with simple projects you can do together. (via Martha Stewart)

18 Piano Hinge Book

Piano Hinge Book: How to Make a Piano Hinge Book – A very special binding (via making-mini-scrapbooks.com)

19 Art Supply Organizer

Art Supply Organizer: This lovely artist’s organizer is the perfect way to easily store all of your children’s art supplies for use at home or on the go. (via Martha Stewart)

20 Handmade Pencil Box

Handmade Pencil Box (via Mama from Greece)

21 Owl Backpack

Owl Backpack: Martha and crafter Jamie Irene make adorable felted animal backpacks. (via Martha Stewart)

22 Alphabet Necklace

Alphabet Necklace: Practice your ABCs with a D&G inspired alphabet necklace. Randomly space letters, spell out words, or even spell out your name for a bold and modern take on the nameplate necklace. Its easy to change the letters on the chains, so no choice is final! (via Runway DIY)

23 Ribbon Bookmarks

Ribbon Bookmarks (via The Partiologist)

24 Woven Pouches

Woven Pouches: A set of woven pouches can keep electronic devices such as cameras and MP3 players (at left) safe inside your bag. Each has an attractive scalloped edge — no finishing required. Each can be made by stitching 2 square or rectangular swatches back-to-back. If you want to make a makeup case, that requires a third rectangle for a closing flap. (via Martha Stewart)

25 Chalkboard Placemats

Chalkboard Placemats: Chalkboards may no longer have a place in the classroom, but they are still a quintessential school symbol. I’ve teamed up with some creative bloggers for a Back to School Blog Hop with 10 Chalkboard Ideas. Oh, and a giveaway from DecoArt too… (via Giggles Galore)

26 Mason Jar Caddies

Mason Jar Caddies: Your child will get a gold star with this adorable back to school teacher gift – a mason jar caddy holding vintage blue mason jars full of supplies and sweets! (via Shaken Together)

27 Roll-Up Pencil Kit

Roll-Up Pencil Kit: Our organizer safely keeps pencils together in one place and rolls up, too, making it compact enough to tote to school and back. (via Martha Stewart)

28 Stamped Pencils

Stamped Pencils: Does anyone else remember the excitement of back-to-school as vividly as I do? Butterflies in your stomach, brand new school supplies ready to go, and a crisp wardrobe (or freshly …read more (via Camille Styles)

29 Apple Pencil Holder

Apple Pencil Holder: Back to School Apple It is back to school season and we at Smart School House are happy to bring you all things apple inspired! (via Smart School House)

30 Decorated Pencils

Decorated Pencils: The secret to overcoming writer’s block is a pencil so marvelous that you can’t help but pick it up and start scribbling. (via Martha Stewart)

31 Notebook Makeover

Notebook Makeover: back to school diys, geometric diys, duct tape diys (via A Bubbly Life)

32 Chair Bag

Chair Bag: Sew a bag to hang on the back of a chair with this chair bag tutorial – perfect for school or your desk at home. (via The Crafty Mummy)

33 Felt Pencil Case

Felt Pencil Case: Stitching a few school supplies and stylish accessories is a cinch when you use wool felt because the edges won’t fray. And since this doesn’t require a lot of fabric, it’s perfect for using up scraps and stray buttons. (via Martha Stewart)

34 Neon Pens

Neon Pens (via Madigan Made)

35 Day Planners

Day Planners: There are many reasons leather is the best material for everything from day planners to checkbook covers: It’s durable and weather resistant, conforms to different shapes, and develops a soft, well-worn feel. (via Martha Stewart)

36 Recycled Soda Bottle Apple Containers

Recycled Soda Bottle Apple Containers: Crafts from recycled materials are great for the earth and your pocketbook. Make these zippy apples by upcycling plastic soda bottles into spill-proof containers. (via Love the Country)

37 Lacing Bookmarks

Lacing Bookmarks: It’s back-to-school for the little ones and for us that means a lot of reading! We decided to create a couple of fun lacing bookmarks to accompany our daily ready routine. (via Handmade Charlotte)

38 Decorate Your Pencils with Washi Tape

  Decorate Your Pencils with Washi Tape (via The Pink Doormat)

39 Marbleized Pencils

Marbleized Pencils: Take poetic license with a box of ordinary pencils, and dress them up in complementary shades.Begin your project by learning how to marbleize paper.Once marbleized paper has dried, cut into strips (about 1 by 6 3/4 inches). Brush the back of a strip of marbleized paper with white craft glue; affix one long edge of paper to the pencil, then roll it against a hard surface to wrap the pencil and remove air bubbles.Sharpen the pencils once the glue has dried. (via Martha Stewart)

40 Heart Shaped Paperclips

Heart Shaped Paperclips (via Novelty and Chevron)

41 Tree-Bark Pen Holder

Tree-Bark Pen Holder: Naturally curling bark fits around cups to create stylish pen and pencil holders. (via Martha Stewart)

42 Backpack Tag

Backpack Tag: I can’t believe summer is coming to an end and I have to share my son with someone else… no one prepares a new mom for sending her precious first child off to school, knowing he’ll never be fully yours again. I was the one who held him when he cried and cuddled him when he needed it; will his new (via Lolly Jane)

43 Hankie Holder

Hankie Holder: Stitching a few school supplies and stylish accessories is a cinch when you use wool felt because the edges won’t fray. And since this project doesn’t require a lot of fabric, it’s perfect for using up scraps and stray buttons. (via Martha Stewart)

44 Laptop Stand for Bed

Laptop Stand for Bed: Make a simple but incredibly useful Laptop Stand for around $15 and 30-60 minutes! Great for use in bed while typing, browsing, and especially watching movies. When I use my laptop in bed, it’s often uncomfortable. I have to balance the laptop on my lap and sit up, or on my chest when laying down. This laptop stand makes both laying and sitting laptop use a whole lot more comfortable, and it’s simple to make… about $15 and 30 minutes. Let’s do it! (via jumpfroggy)

45 Messenger Bag

Messenger Bag: This sturdy, waterproof, and stain-resistant bag takes full advantage of the many virtues of oilcloth — an ingenious and inexpensive vinyl-permeated cotton-mesh fabric that’s available in various colors and patterns. What’s more, once you’ve assembled the required materials, this stylish accessory takes only about ten minutes to make. (via Martha Stewart)