choco_chippie

Mini Notebook Necklaces

11:14 am - 03/18/2012
With over 78 students, my classrooms go through a lot of tissue boxes. The boxes come with lovely designs so instead of just tossing them into the recycling bin, we decided to recycle them ourselves to make fun little party favors.










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tjs_whatnot 18th-Mar-2012 07:28 pm (UTC)
Wow! First, 78 kids in your class!?!? Insane.

But, OMG these are awesome!!

Thanks for the tutorial!
kellendraysia 18th-Mar-2012 07:41 pm (UTC)
Those are absolutely fantastic, what a great idea to do with kids. You a brave one to be a mentor for 78 kids that is a huge class. I bet they love this sort of crafting :)
mongorules 18th-Mar-2012 09:45 pm (UTC)
God bless you!
txvoodoo 18th-Mar-2012 11:27 pm (UTC)
Very cute. But which tissues are these that have these awesome boxes??
choco_chippie 18th-Mar-2012 11:35 pm (UTC)
We use so many different brands of tissues with many different styles and designs on the boxes and all of them make excellent notebook covers.

The shimmery blue in the photos is from a Kleenex Cool Touch box. These are not only my favorite cold & flu season tissues but one of the prettiest boxes.
txvoodoo 18th-Mar-2012 11:42 pm (UTC)
Thank you!! I usually use Puffs w/ no lotion (because I will ALWAYS forget and try to clean my glasses w/ lotion tissues and that is a Very Bad Idea ;)). They have some pretty marbelized boxes.
shveta_thakrar 19th-Mar-2012 05:09 pm (UTC)
Aw, that's awesome!!!
brightyell0wgun 19th-Mar-2012 07:26 pm (UTC)
that's such a cool idea!! :)
perrrfect_angel 20th-Mar-2012 07:15 am (UTC)
Very cute! How do you fasten the pages to each other prior to gluing them to the spine-necklace?
choco_chippie 20th-Mar-2012 07:29 am (UTC)
Thank you! We didn't fasten the pages to each other before gluing. We just stacked the folded sheets on top of each other, making sure the stack was even (I pressed the folded edges together to make a tight stack) and pressed the folded edges into the glue.

Here's a few tips from trial and error: Low temp glue holds the pages in place better (which is good because kids like to open up and use their books), use more glue than you think you'll need, use fewer pages then you think the cover can hold, and let the notebooks cool for about 20 minutes (not really to cool but to let the glue really set.
perrrfect_angel 2nd-Apr-2012 05:44 am (UTC)
AH! I sort of missed that. Somehow I was thinking you'd placed some of the pages inside each other...

Most of my hot-glue work is with hair clips and "silk" flowers placed on those clips. I find a glossy ceramic tile makes not only a great, easy to clean working surface, but you can readily "flatten" a wad of glue against it. I don't like the undersides of my clips being all lumpy. And flattened, it works oddly well for a non-slip surface against my rather slick hair. Baby-fine and doesn't like holding anything...!
drowningmermaid 25th-Mar-2012 05:31 pm (UTC)
Oh my, this is so adorable! I'm going to do this!!
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