Today I have a homeschool planner stickers back to school craft. Whether you do this craft for your homeschool planner or do it as part of your homeschool year, it’s fun.
You can have your children prepare their homeschool planner stickers back to school craft as a first day activity.
There are two ways to create your own homeschool planner stickers for your planners, notebooks, and wherever else you want to put them.
First, you or your child can draw them using some fun pens and markers to get a nice watercolor look.
Second, I’m showing you a simple tutorial for creating stickers using free clipart if you prefer not to draw them.
Also, I have a ready made sheet for you which has some basic stickers you can use to dress up your planners or notebooks.
The stickers are perfect for adding color and reminders for things like library trips and co-op meetings.
Choosing the Best Sticker Paper
Before we get started though a quick overview about paper type is needed.
There are several types of sticker paper to choose from and you want to be sure to pick the one that fits best with your intended use.
Look at these different sticker paper types.
Matte Sticker Paper. This is inexpensive and works perfectly for planners and things that won’t get wet or be exposed to much use.
This type of paper is also a better choice if you are going to hand draw your own stickers.
This is what I used for both the hand drawn and printable stickers I’m sharing today..
Second is the Clear Vinyl Sticker Paper.
It’s just a bit more expensive, but these are nice if you want to print stickers and not have the white border around them.
Last is the Waterproof Vinyl Sticker Paper.
It is the cadillac of sticker papers.
This is the type of paper you use if you want waterproof stickers to put on things like water bottles.
I love these and we had so much fun creating them.
Doing a quick google search for watercolor school clip art gave us some great ideas for our stickers.
How to Make Hand Drawn Planner Stickers
One of the best tools to making your own hand drawn stickers are fine line pens.
They give a nice crisp outline for drawing.
They are fantastic to use in your planner or other writing even if you don’t consider yourself an artist. Using these will take your art to a new level.
Next, double ended alcohol markers give your stickers that hand drawn artist look.
Also, the markers give a very saturated water color look when using the brush tip.
Now, look below to look at some of these sticker supplies.
Supplies For Hand Drawn Stickers
You will need:
Use a fine line pen to draw a basic shape, a globe, beaker, apple, whatever you need.
Here you can see how much better of an outline I get with the fine line versus a regular marker with a small tip.
Fill them in with the brush tip of the alcohol marker.
Add labels to identify activities to them if you like, such as co-op, library, science labs, etc.
You can either cut them out around the outline or line them up in rows and use a paper slicer to cut them out in squares.
If you want to just use clip art for your stickers, follow these directions below.
How to Make Clip Art Planner Stickers
Here is the easy list of supplies.
- Sticker Paper
- Computer and Printer
- Scissors or Paper Cutter
Open your word processing program and choose insert from the menu.
From the drop down choose Insert then Image.
And either upload from the computer (if you already have clip art downloaded you would like to use), or search the web.
In the search bar type in keywords you would like to find, either broad like school, homeschool, office, etc. or specific like paint, computer, and so on.
This will bring up clip art right in your side bar like this.
Double click the image you like to insert it on the page.
Resize it and move to the upper left corner.
Copy and paste the image to make as many as you like. Repeat with all images you want to use.
If you want to add words to your stickers go ahead and type directly under each picture before you drop to the next line to insert another row.
Fill your page with stickers, you don’t want to waste space or your sticker paper.
Print on to your chosen sticker paper. Then cut out by hand or slice with the paper cutter if you made your stickers in neat little rows with spacing between.
Now you can make all the planner pages you get here truly YOURS by adding special stickers.
Homeschool Planner Stickers Back to School Craft
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