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Free Back to School Inspirational Facebook Cover Photos

Use these free cover photos for Back to School decor for your social media. These inspiration facebook cover photos are a fun way to encourage the love of education all month long whether you are going back to school or not.

Disney Princess Lunchbox Note Printable

Wish your little princess a good day at school with these printable lunchbox notes. These notes will give your little student a smile and a wish during the middle of the day at lunch time.

Back to School Tic Tac Labels

Go Back to School with these fun Tic Tac Labels. They are great for a Back to school party or as a fun treat.

One Smart Cookie Party Favor Sticker Printables

Tell your kids and students they are One Smart Cookie to start the School year off on a sweet foot! These 2 inch printable stickers have a fun chocolate chip cookie face with the greeting "One Smart Cookie" around the outside allowing you to create easy party favors for your next Back to School or End of School party.

Harry Potter Back to Hogwarts Dinner Party

Having family dinners with a theme is a great way to create memories and teach the children manners! This Harry Potter themed dinner party is full of fun ideas and tutorials for back to school. After all, if you have to go back to school, you might as well take the Hogwarts Express all the way to Hogwarts.

September iPhone Wall Paper Freebies

Decorate for September with these free iPhone wall papers for your phone. Choose from these four designs or any of our other monthly favorites to keep your phone fresh and fun each day of the year.

Plastic Canvas Crayon Box Vase Cover Free Pattern

Go back to school in style with this easy crayon box plastic canvas vase. This free pattern can be stitched up by even the beginner and decorate your home or classroom.

Grade School 1 inch Circle Printables

These one inch circles are perfect for all kinds of back to school crafts as well as teacher gifts and afternoon fun. With grades Kindergarten through fifth grade and a little bit more, you'll have everything you need to go back to school in style.

Chalkboard Alphabet for School Scrapbooking

Scrapbook your child's school year with this fun Chalkboard alphabet with a black chalkboard and the ABCs written throughout. Such a fun and free alphabet to download today.

First Day of School Printable Journaling Cards

Decorate your back to school memories with these first day of school printables. Cards are available from Preschool to College in both horizontal and vertical designs to fit all your Scrapbooking layouts or first day of school pictures.

Color My World Thank You Gift

Give your favorite teacher a great Back to School gift, Teacher appreciation gift, or End of School gift with this cute Color My World thank you gift. There's instructions for the DIY gift, a free printable, as well as an excuse to snag a few pieces of candy while you make it.

I know ALOT of parents who give gifts to their kids' teachers on the first day of school as a Welcome Back gift or as a Break The Ice gift. I admit, I don't do that myself, but think it's pretty smart to "sweeten" up the teacher before school begins...

Since my kids will be moving 2 months into school, I wanted to make a quick Back to School gift to thank the teacher for their help and love for the short time we are here.

I started with a tuna fish can and 2 boxes of 24 count crayons.

Using my nifty Smooth Edge Can Opener, I took off the sharp edges of the tuna can and cleaned it out.

I started gluing crayons around the edge of the can.

I found the best way was to place a little bit of glue on the bottom half of the crayon at the back where the paper edges come together. (Can you tell that's what I'm doing? weird picture!)

Once all the crayons were glued around the edge (I actually only ended up using 35 crayons total), I used some of this fun polka dot ribbon that I bought at Walmart.

Using about 14 inches of the ribbon, I glued it around the crayons to help hold them together if anything gets bumped...and to add a pop of white to enhance the color to the gift.

I then took my 2-Inch Scallop Circle Paper Punch to a scrap piece of yellow paper I had (I knew there was a reason I kept all that paper) and then punched out the saying using a 1 1/2 inch Circle Punch. I glued the two together to the front of the ribbon where the edges overlapped.

I finished off the gift by adding a bag of candy to the center of the crayon ring.

Now I have a cute, cheap gift for all the teachers! It would also be a great end of school teacher gift or Christmas gift...in fact I may reuse it when I get to our new school. After all who doesn't need more candy in a cute container? And by buying the crayons on sale during the Back to School shopping, it's a cheap gift to make too!

Here's the printable if you want to try! I hope you'll share your creations, I'd love to see if you make this too.

Back to Hogwarts Book Wreath

Go back to school with all your textbooks and necessities with this Hogwarts book wreath! This wreath would be a great addition to any Harry Potter party as it's magically easy to put together and so much fun too.

Run to Diagon Alley, grab your Hogwarts text books, and prepare your wand for another year back to school.

We have been preparing for our annual Back to School party here for the past few weeks and are almost ready to show you the Harry Potter themed dinner party. But first I needed to share with you our front door wreath in all it's textbook glory.

When I first had the idea for making our party theme Back to Hogwarts this year, the idea for a wreath made from the Hogwarts textbooks came to mind. I've been playing around with it for three weeks now and it never quite came together like it did in my head. (Don't you just hate that?)

I had given up on the idea, until I was hit with inspiration in the middle of the night. (Isn't that always how it is?)

I decided to simplify the book wreath and to make it lighter so I could fit all the textbooks every Hogwarts student needs right on the door for everyone to see.

And I do love how it turned out! What do you think?

And after all the fun, it really was super simple to make.

Since the wreath was going to have so many layers to it, I didn't want a bulky, round wreath. Instead, I took one of the cardboard boxes from our move and a large kitchen bowl. I drew a circle and cut that out and then drew a circle inside that using a smaller kitchen bowl.

I used a roll of large Christmas ribbon I had leftover and wrapped it around the wreath form to hide the cardboard and give the wreath the Gryffindor colors.

I think that deciding what size to make the textbooks was the hardest part of the whole project. I ended up cutting a large sheet of Styrofoam into 2 inch by 3 inch rectangles.

Once I knew what size I wanted my books to be, I went over to Pinterest and searched up some printable Harry Potter textbook covers. There are a lot there, so you can pick and choose which ones you want.

I saved the covers, resized them to fit my pages, and then printed them out. The paper glued pretty easily around the Styrofoam pages to create the Hogwarts textbooks.

Didn't they turn out so cool? I am totally in love! Thanks to all the talented artists who shared the talents in making these book covers.

I really recommend laying out the books on the wreath to make sure they fit nicely and the color placement looks good before glueing them to the wreath form. Once you have it looking good, go ahead and glue the books down.

To make the wreath a little more fun, I created little pennant banners with the words "Hogwarts Bound" in a Harry Potter font. I glued the pennant pieces to some red and gold ribbon in the center of my wreath.

Now my Harry Potter wreath is hanging on my front door making my kids' return to school a little more magical and fun as they can pretend we are off to Hogwarts!

Don't miss out on our Dementor Knock Down game printable, lots of party ideas, and free party printables.

Harry Potter Party Ideas

Harry Potter and Hogwarts is the perfect party for any magic loving muggle. This party theme works for Halloween, birthdays, or Back to School. Find all of your party needs from party decorations to party printables to inspirational parties here. And don't forget to join the party and get a free Dementor game printable here.

School starts for us on Monday.

Hooray!!

With all the craziness of this summer and the move, I am so ready for the kids to get out and make new friends and start school again.

Mini Me is super excited, but The Perfectionist is fighting it every step of the way.

Me, I'm celebrating all the way to the bus stop.

While they are gone, I plan to finally finish the last of the unpacking and get things organized around here. So it was super nice to be able to see all the great organization ideas you guys shared at last week's Dare to Share Saturday.

1. Kid's Homework Station by Clean and Scentsible

2. School Door Organization by C.R.A.F.T.

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3. Laundry Room Makeover by Inspiration for Moms

I am finishing up the last of the projects for our Back to Hogwarts school party this weekend, but will still be sharing them on the blog over the next two weeks. I have lots to show you, so hopefully you won't get tired of Harry and his friends during that time.

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I can't wait to see what you've been up to this week!

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30 Harry Potter Hogwarts Room Decorations

If I had to go back to school, I would certainly want to go to Hogwarts. Since that's not going to happen any time soon (I'm still waiting on my letter), the next best thing is to decorate my room to look like my favorite parts of the castle.

With Amazon's new Handmade section, you can find all kinds of items to decorate any room in your castle. And with every purchase, you are supporting some struggling muggle who wishes he or she were right there with you at Hogwarts.

Check out these great handmade Harry Potter items to decorate your room, classroom, dorm room, office, or personal space to look like you just stepped out of the picture frame and into Hogwarts castle.