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DIY Seat Sack Chair Organizer for Classrooms

Students bring enough chaos to the classroom that every organizational hack is useful – especially when it comes to organizing students’ classroom tools!  Having students make their own DIY Seat Sack Chair Organizers is a great way to keep the classroom neat and organized, and because these seat sacks are made with inexpensive paper plates, they won’t break the budget!  So great! Make a DIY Seat Sack Chair Pouch organizer for the back of classroom chairs! Paper plates make this project super affordable for all classroom budgets!

If you’re using these DIY back of chair organizers with preschoolers, you might want to make them yourself and simply have the children decorate their seat pouches.  They also serve as great name tags when the kids’ names are prominently written on them.

Supplies Needed to Make Your Own Paper Plate Seat Sack

As with all projects on Paper Plate Fun, this supply list is for the project as shown in this tutorial.  We encourage you to substitute items for things you have on hand!

  • Two paper plates per seat sack
  • Ruler
  • Pencil
  • Scissors
  • Hole punch
  • Yarn
  • Glue
  • Marker

How to Make Your Own Seat Sack Chair Organizer with Paper Plates

It’s so easy and affordable to get your classroom organized with these chair pockets!  Follow these steps and you’ll make these in no time.

Step One

Use the ruler and pencil to draw a halfway point dividing line on the back of a paper plate. Use paper plates to make a useful seat sack for classroom organization!

Step Two

Cut the plate in half.  Once cut, run a line of glue along the inside edge of the cut paper plate, and then press it onto the inside edge of the other paper plate.  This will form a pocket.  (Note: if you, the adult, is making these DIY seat sacks, you may prefer to use hot glue to make the process faster.)Learn how to make a DIY back of chair pouch organizer with paper plates.

Step Three

Once the glue has dried, use the hole punch to cut holes along the bottom edge of the paper plate pocket.  Paper plates make a great DIY seat sack.

Step Four

Reinforce the paper plate pocket edge with yarn.  Weave the yarn in and out of the holes and tie off the yarn at both ends.  This post teaches you how to make a DIY seat sack chair pouch with paper plates!

Step Five

Use the hole punch to punch two holes at the top of the full paper plate, and string yarn through the holes.  This is how you will tie the paper plate seat pouch organizer to students’ chairs.  This is so smart! Learn how to make a back of chair organizer for classrooms with paper plates!

Step Six

Write the students’ names on each of the seat sacks, and if desired, let the students decorate their seat pouches for a fun and colorful look!  Fill the seat sacks with each students’ supplies to keep them neat and organized throughout the school year.  Brilliant! See how she used paper plates to make DIY seat sack chair organizers for her classroom!

These DIY paper plate seat sacks are surprisingly sturdy!  Although they’re not large enough to hold things like notebooks or pencil boxes, they are large enough to hold a wide variety of common classroom materials like school glue, glue sticks, scissors, crayons, markers, pencils, and more!  Get your classroom organized with these cheap and easy to make DIY seat sack chair organizers! Use paper plates to make these chair pouches and keep your room tidy.

And, because they’re so cheap to make, you can replace them at any time if needed!  Get your classroom organized with these cheap and easy to make DIY seat sack chair organizers! Use paper plates to make these chair pouches and keep your room tidy.

Will you be making a DIY seat sack with paper plates for your classroom organization this year? Let us know in the comments!

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DIY Rainbow Pencil Toppers Craft

Somewhere over the rainbow . . . teachers, parents or camp counselors got 20 minutes of peace while their children made these adorable DIY rainbow pencil toppers to give their pencils extra pizzaz!  This rainbow themed kids craft is one of the best crafts for kids because it is so cheap to make and only requires supplies that just about everyone has!  It is an excellent Vacation Bible School craft, back-to-school craft, St. Patrick’s Day craft, Pride month craft, or just because craft – because really, who doesn’t love a rainbow?!?

This is so cute! See how to turn a paper plate into DIY rainbow pencil toppers! What a cute kids craft to celebrate back-to-school, summer camp, Vacation Bible School and more!

Supplies Needed to Make DIY Rainbow Pencil Toppers

As with all projects on Paper Plate Fun, these are the supplies we used to make the project as shown in this post.  Feel free to modify this supply list to fit your needs or what supplies you have on hand!

  • White paper plate
  • Washable markers in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple
  • Scissors
  • Gluestick

Instructions for Making DIY Rainbow Pencil Toppers

Each paper plate will make approximately 8 rainbow pencil toppers in a short amount of time, making this kids craft super budget-friendly!

Step One

Begin by using a red marker to draw along the edge of a paper plate. If the paper plate has a flat edge along the top, do not color on that edge – begin coloring on the inner rim of the paper plate.  Love this easy kids craft! Turn a paper plate into cute rainbow pencil toppers!

Step Two

Continue coloring lines with the markers until a rainbow rim has been drawn around the entire paper plate.  Rainbow pencil toppers are a fun and cheap kids craft!

Step Three

Use the scissors to cut off the white edge of the paper plate.  Paper plates become rainbow pencil toppers in this fun back to school craft.

Step Four

Cut into the paper plate and then cut out the white circle from the middle of the paper plate.  Use a paper plate to make adorable DIY rainbow pencil toppers.

Step Five

Use the scissors to cut the rainbow edge of the paper plate into smaller rainbow pieces – approximately 3″ long each.  It's so fun and easy to turn a paper plate into a rainbow craft!

Step Six

Cut out small cloud shapes from the middle piece of the paper plate.  Kids love making rainbow pencil toppers! The middle of the paper plate is used as the clouds for the rainbow.

Step Seven

Use the gluestick to glue the cloud pieces to the ends of the rainbow pieces.  Use one paper plate to make lots of rainbow pencil toppers!

Step Eight

Once the glue has dried, use the scissors to carefully cut two slits in the middle of each paper plate rainbow piece – one slit near the top of the rainbow (red/orange area), and another slit near the bottom of the rainbow (blue/purple area).  Gently folding the rainbow piece in half makes cutting the slits much easier!  Rainbow pencil toppers made with a paper plate are a fun craft for kids.Use a paper plate to make adorable rainbow pencil toppers.

Step Nine

Finally, carefully push a pencil through the slits to place the rainbow pencil toppers onto the pencils!  DIY Rainbow Pencil Toppers are such a cute and inexpensive craft for kids! This rainbow craft is awesome for St. Patrick's Day, back-to-school, Vacation Bible School, summer camp crafts, and more! It's cheap, easy and fun!

This colorful rainbow craft is sure to be a hit with your wallet and your children!  If you agree, please make sure to share this post on Pinterest and with your friends!  DIY Rainbow Pencil Toppers are such a cute and inexpensive craft for kids! This rainbow craft is awesome for St. Patrick's Day, back-to-school, Vacation Bible School, summer camp crafts, and more! It's cheap, easy and fun!

Make a Fun Paper Plate School Bus Craft!

The wheels on this bus go round and round! Preschoolers, pre-k, and young elementary school students will enjoy making a yellow paper plate school bus craft that’s perfect for back-to-school, and making the wheels really turn! What a great back to school craft for preschoolers and young children! Make a paper plate school bus craft with wheels that really move!

This paper plate craft is simple fun for young children, and can be modified in so many ways to fit supplies you may already have on hand!

Paper Plate School Bus Supplies

Here are the paper plate school bus supplies we used for this project:

  • Paper plate
  • Pencil
  • Ruler
  • Scissors
  • Circle craft punch
  • Do-A-Dot paint stick in yellow
  • Black construction paper
  • Decorative brads
  • Glue
  • Popsicle stick
  • Sharpie

How to Make a Paper Plate School Bus

Step One

Depending on the age of the children making this craft, an adult may want to complete this first step. Draw two lines on the paper plate to form a 90 degree angle in the top right of the paper plate. Also draw a straight line across the paper plate, about 2.5″ from the bottom of the plate. It's easy to make a paper plate school bus craft!

Step Two

Cut across the line on the bottom of the plate and the L-shape at the top right of the plate. This will turn the paper plate into the shape of a school bus! Cut a paper plate to look like a school bus.

Step Three

Now for the important part: turning the school bus yellow! We used a Do-A-Dot paint marker in yellow for this step, because Do-A-Dots are a great way to keep the mess of paint contained! If you don’t have Do-A-Dots or other paint markers, children could use crayons, markers, or tempera paint to complete this step. Paint a paper plate yellow to make a cute school bus craft.

Step Four

Next, cut out two circles from black construction paper for the wheels. We used a circle craft punch, but if you don’t have one of those, this would be a great fine motor skills activity for children to practice cutting with scissors. Learn how to make a paper plate school bus craft in this post.

Step Five

To make the wheels on the bus moveable, we used decorative brads. First, we poked the brads through the center of each wheel, and then we poked them through the bottom of the paper plate. Children will probably need help with this step so they don’t poke their fingers or tear their paper plates! This paper plate school bus has wheels that really move!

Step Six

Then we cut out three rectangles for passenger seat windows on the bus, and a larger rectangle for the bus windshield. We glued them to the bus with school glue, but glue sticks would work well here, too. Let children practice cutting shapes to make windows for their paper plate school bus craft!

Step Seven

Finally, we wrote “School Bus” on a popsicle stick in black Sharpie, and glued it to the front side of the bus for an adorable finishing touch! Make an adorable school bus with a paper plate! Once dry, let the kids gently spin the wheels on the bus and enjoy their school bus paper plate project! Maybe a class sing-a-long to The Wheels on the Bus will be in order, too?  Oh, and hey before you go, make sure to check out our post on 15 Fall Paper Plate Crafts for Kids – it’s never too early to start planning!What a great back to school craft for preschoolers and young children! Make a paper plate school bus craft with wheels that really move!

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