Back To School/Teacher Appreciation Pencil Holder Craft

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With it being back to school time for many children, I love seeing the great projects on Pinterest for things for children and to give to new teachers. I’ll always take a peak when I’m having a break from some intense gaming, letting me check out what fantastic projects are being taken on. I saw a really neat flower holder with colored pencils around the outside and decided to do something with crayons! This pencil holder craft is really simple to do and I wanted to share it with you! If you don’t have time to do it for the beginning of the school year, these would also make great Christmas presents and Teacher Appreciation gifts in May!

For this Pencil Holder Craft, you only need a few supplies:

Canister/Bucket/Jar (I bought mine from Oriental Trading.)
Scrapbook Paper that’s school themed (Mine is from Michael’s.)
Ribbon that is school themed (Again, from Michael’s.)
2 – 24 Count Crayons (I used a pack and a half.)
Mod Podge
Hot Glue Gun & Sticks
Scissors

First you’re going to cut some of your scrapbook paper off the bottom. Just measure how long the canister/jar/bucket is and cut the excess with scissors. Your scrapbook paper probably will not fit around (mine did not and I used a tall jar). You can either cut another piece to cover the empty spot, or you can do what I did to personalize it, which you will see below. Next, put some Mod Podge on the jar and put your paper on it! I have to admit that this was my first time ever using Mod Podge (shocking, I know) and I am absolutely in love with the stuff now – it dries so quickly!

Next you will cut the ribbon you are using to fit the very top of the jar and use Mod Podge to set in place.

(If you’re planning on personalizing it, skip to below them come back here. If not, keep reading!) Now comes the fun part! You’re going to use your hot glue gun to attach your crayons to the bottom. I tried to get the Crayola part of the label to always face out, just to make it more uniform. You can do it however you wish – it might look kind of cool if just the name of the color is sticking out. Whatever floats your boat! 🙂 Make sure to try and get them all level. And warning – since it is hot glue, once you set it on the jar, it will stick and you won’t be able to move it. So try to place it exactly where you want it right away.

That’s all there is to it!

Since my wonderful mother-in-law is a Head Start teacher and starts back on Thursday, I decided to personalize the one that I made so it had her name on it. To do this, I just cut out some scrapbook paper that looked like that writing paper we all used in 2nd grade to practice and made cut it to fit the empty spot. I did just a few lines so that the bottom of the jar wasn’t covered with paper in that area (it is covered with the crayons, so that’s not really a big deal anyways) and the top isn’t covered – I figured she can see if there’s any pencils or anything left. Then I just wrote her name on it and Mod Podge’d (is that even a word?) it on! Voil
Now you can go back up to where you add the crayons. 🙂

I really hope that you will make this pencil holder craft for your child’s teachers either for a back-to-school gift, Christmas present, or Teacher Appreciation gift. I am sure they will love it! I know my mother-in-law did! She plans on putting it on her desk! If you like this, I would appreciate it so much if you Pin this to Pinterest – you can do that just by hovering over your favorite picture and a ‘Pin It’ button will show up in the top left hand corner! Thank you so much!

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Courtney P.

I’m a 20-something stay-at-home mother and wife. I have an amazing husband, a beautiful daughter, two loving dogs, and a lazy cat. I wouldn’t change my life for anything! I love to read, listen to music, cook and blog!

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