quiet book/activity binder perfect to keep the kids from making your rip your hair out!!!!

(last post on my school week crafts)

at my trip to walgreens I picked these up for less than 50 cents...(the red one I actually bought at walmart for $1. What a rip off!)

Decided to make a whole binder of activities. so when you are headed to church you've got all you need contained into a neat binder

i had every intention of buying a cheap one and dolling it all up--but walmart had these cute ones for only 2.50...and I just couldn't resist. seriously though...super cute right?

I took my pencil bag...and went through my collection of those dumb little toys that your get at the quarter machines (that every kid LOVED)

and wrote them all down

and threw them in the pencil bag with a load of beads

(You can beads at the dollar store)

I just took some hot glue and just glued up the zipper so the beads all stay put.

fastest and easiest I spy bag EVER.

and I harbor deep love for the I spy bag because I just can't throw away anything, so it's a great place to put all that dumb crap you can't part with.

Next I added some folders

(I got the print outs from this book

click HERE)

I can't tell if that's the exact book....but it was a file folder fun from the same author...anyways..they are all awesome.

had to add the hold punches

just a laminated folder and the pictures have tape on them to make them stick.

a color matching one

and a lowercase matching to uppercase folder

added a folder

put in some paper and some stickers

decided to add some colored pencils.

cut off the top part of the box

and covered each section in fabric (using hot glue)

hot glued the bottom to the inside of the binder

filled with colored pencils (that I got for less than a dollar!)

so now it has a little lid to make sure the colored pencils don't go anywhere.

in the book I added a look and find color book

that's right..97 cents.

so the cost breakdown:

39 cent pencil bag

2.50 binder

15 cent folder

89 cent colored pencils

beads $1

97 cent coloring book

the files I already had down..but probably 5 bucks to lamniate.

I won't try to add that up... but we will say a reasonable amount....

but entertainment for the kids: priceless.

If you need more to add to your binder..you can check out my lacing cards HERE