It’s that time of the year when all the stores have shelves and shelves of fun school supplies! All the colors, designs, and characters make it fun to shop and pick out a collection that you’ll love. Follow along with this easy tutorial to see how to make your dolls their very own curated collection of back to school folders, ready for the upcoming school year!
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Supplies:
• Pretty cardstock paper (you want stiffer paper for this)
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Craft or tacky glue
• Hole punch
Step 1: Draw a rectangle on the back of one of your papers 7 inches wide and 6 inches tall.
Step 2: Cut out this rectangle, and draw in the following lines: measuring up from the bottom 1 1/2inches, draw a line. Measuring down from the top 1/2 inch, draw a line. And measuring in 3/8 inch on either side, draw a line.
Step 3: Cut off the top two corners at a diagonal angle, just touching the point where the lines cross. At the bottom corners, cut off the tall, thin rectangles made by your lines, doing so at an angle at the top and long sides. See our photo for reference.
Step 4: Carefully using the edge of your scissors, score along the straight pencil lines. To score means you barely scrape the paper, but don’t go all the way through. If you are new to this, please protect your work surface.
Step 6: The scoring will make it easy to do the next step - fold up the large bottom flap, then fold in the side flaps, then the top flap. Use your fingernail or edge of your scissors to make nice sharp creases.
Step 7: Apply craft glue to the side and top flaps only, and glue down. Make sure the side flaps go over the large, bottom flap. Hold in place until set.
Step 8: Once the glue is set, fold your folder in half. Then use your hole punch to punch three holes along the folded edge.
Step 9: Using lined or plain white paper, cut sheets of paper for your doll that are 3 1/2 inches tall and 2 1/2 inches wide to put in your folder.
These are sooo cute, and so easy to make! It’ll be easy to make your doll a fun collection of folders she can’t wait to use for school this year!
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I loved all the colorful notebooks and binders. I will definitly make some folders for my dolls with this super cute pattern. Thank you!!
I used to love pretty pencils, erasers and colored notebook paper!
New crayon’s, and markers are the best!
what a cute idea! I love it! Going to try it too.
Trapper Keeper! Those things are the best.
Scissors! Makes sense, as I grew up to sew.
Flair markers.
My favorite school supplies were caryons and colored pencils.
I always liked colored markers best.
My favorite school supply was anything for art class, crayons, colored pencils, paper, you name it. I still can’t walk away from these items when I see them in the store. I have to see what they’ve got.
Since I am a homeschooling mom, my answer is probably a bit weird, but My favorite school supply items to buy are the text books! There is something special about a new, unblemished text book, that just calls out to be looked at!
My favourite school supply will always be crayons. There is something magical about the way they make a rainbow in the box. I even love the way they smell!
New school bag and lunch kit!
paint
I loved crayons and my compus
I have always loved new pens and pencils and crayons for school! These tiny folders are SO cute!
In elementary it was a new box of crayons.
I liked the pen that has multiple color options. It was a little bulky, but fun to click till you got the right color you wanted. And you could decorate your pages with designs, etc.
My favorite would have to be crayons or better yet colored pencils. Drawing paper was a great treasure to me. I loved to make beautiful things then and I love to now.
My favorite would have to be crayons or better yet colored pencils. Drawing paper was a great treasure to me. I loved to make beautiful things then and I love to now.
My favorite would have to be crayons or better yet colored pencils. Drawing paper was a great treasure to me. I loved to make beautiful things then and I love to now.
I love getting a big box of crayons
Favorite was something to use for coloring: a brand-new box of crayons or colored pencils. I colored the illustrations on mimeograph/spirit duplicator worksheets or in spare time used backs of old worksheets for drawing, sometimes drew my own fashions for paper dolls like Betsy McCall from the magazines! :-)
I loved starting school with a new pack of crayons. The point on the top of the crayon could get in to the tightest spots on the picture…
I loved the smell of the white paste we used, but I didn’t eat it!!
Cute folders. I need to make some for dolls desk.
crayons and new pencils
I‘m so old when I was in college we had to type papers on a regulator type writer. Because I had never taken a typing class, my number one necessity was erasable bond paper.
I loved getting new pens!
A new backpack!
That classic 64 color box of Crayola Crayons, with all the colors named: fuchsia, magenta, periwinkle, burnt sienna, even red-orange and yellow-green!
My favorite getting ready for the school year thing was covering one of my dad’s cigar boxes with pretty paper to make a pencil/crayon box.
My favorite is the colored pencils for drawing.
Marilyn
My favourite school supply was always getting new crayons. Wax and pencil.
Colored Pencils
I love new crayons and colored pencils.
I loved getting new colored pens to start school; my AM doll needs a folder!
I think that my favorite school supply was the notebooks. I remember buying ones to fit my mood at the time. I had ones with horses, the ocean, rock bands, etc.
Crayons are definitely my favorite, but I love all school supplies.
My favorite school supplies were binders, folders, and notebooks in either floral, horses or cat prints.
My favorite school supply was fresh new sharpened pencils
I love journals, notebooks, and pens!
I always loved the colorful folders and to this day I still use them. Now my dolls can have colorful and holiday folders. I’m going to glue scrapbook paper on the cardstock before cutting. Thank you for the idea and tutorial!!
I love crayons and colored pencils
loved colored pencils
Colored pencils and notebooks are my favorites!
The 64 count box of crayons with the sharpener in the back of the box was my favorite.
I still collect the Spacemaker pencil boxes, they are so cool and not made the same anymore. My absolute favorite school supply.
mechanical pencils! LOVE THEM STILL
I always loved anything with paper. The new smell is what I liked!
Binders and pens and pencils.
Binders and pens and pencils.
I loved loved loved a bunch of new notebooks. Loved the blank pages waiting to be filled with the new school year.
I loved a new box of crayons the bigger the better and still do. This is a great and cute idea. Thank you for all you do.
I loved my Trapper Keeper and the pen that had four colors of ink!
I love all school supplies! New crayons, pencils, pens! New notebooks and folders!! I have never really outgrown the thrill!
A nice new box of crayons. I still colour and love the sharp points on brand new crayons – such potential.
Comme la plupart: nouvelle boîte de crayons de couleur aiguisés pointus et nouveaux cahiers. J’adorais étaler le tout sur mon lit et sentir l’odeur du neuf.
Crayons at first, and when I got a little older, those perfectly sharpened colored pencils.
I loved new sharp colored pencils! These folders are adorable!
Crayons & they still are!
A nice big box of Crayola crayons always put a smile on my face.
It has to be a new box of 64 color crayons, the skinny kind. I never really like the “fat” crayons of Kindergarten. The number of beautiful colors, including the metallic ones, was a great creativity stimulus.
Folders, paper & notebooks! I still love to get these at this time of year.
It has to be a new box of 64 color crayons, the skinny kind. I never really like the “fat” crayons of Kindergarten. The number of beautiful colors, including the metallic ones, was a great creativity stimulus.
I loved notebooks and sharp pencils!
My favorite was always new notebooks and pens.
My favorite school supply was the new notebook
I always loved all the brand new supplies I received for the beginning of school!
I always loved the little notebooks that had sections for keeping your homework notes in. Also liked the different colored folders, so could organize subjects..
I loved getting the folders and notebooks!!
Loved to draw so I’d say pencil crayons
I’m a teacher so give me all the school supplies! I love to shop for them. l My favorite would have to be PaperMate Flair pens. Never have to many! Thank you for this. Can’t wait to make some folders for my dolls.
Math!
I still shop through the back to school aisle even though my child is now in his 40s. So many pretty things, all still shiny and new. Thanks for this tutorial so my dolls can have pretty new supplies, too.
I still shop through the back to school aisle even though my child is now in his 40s. So many pretty things, all still shiny and new. Thanks for this tutorial so my dolls can have pretty new supplies, too.
I was so excited when erasable ink pens came out, because I always made mistakes and ink erasers made a mess of my home work.
I love a fresh notebook that doesn’t have scribble on it.
I loved having new sharp pencils and erasers. Of course, I had to have paper, too so that I could draw.
Loved a new box of Crayola crayons — the best smell! Also narrow lined filler paper.
My favorite school supplies were the notebooks and folders because that was where your personality got to peak out in the pretty designs. As an adult I will still occasionally go get a pretty notebook or folder. They have some really cool ones available. 🙂
New pencils, and rubbers. 😀😅😍 I still feel the same. 😍
That new box of Crayola crayons – the smell, the sharpener, all those colors!
My favorite school supply was Bic Clic Pens! They came in cool colors—and it was the first pen that we had that wasn’t a pen used in a inkwell or a cartridge pen. It was so great to write without getting ink all over my fingers!
I loved (and still do) fine point ink pens!
New folders, tablets and pointed sharpened pencils.
Markers, pens, notebooks, binder, any art supply
I loved new school supplies. I think my absolute favorite was a new binder with dividers and a pencil case inside.
New pencils, and a big pink eraser! Oh, and new pens! I love pens!
Pens… I love pens!
I loved white out!!!
I loved a new package of pastel gel pens. This tutorial is really fun, thank you.
I loved ever sharp or mechanical pencils. Neat little invention . Especially loved the small eraser in the end that if you twisted it, the eraser became longer. Cute little notebook idea here.
I loved (still love) to draw, so pencil and eraser on whatever paper I could find (even schoolwork).
Very cute little project, btw!
New crayons and brightly colored binders.
My favorite supply is pretty post-its. I have some many I may never run out.
I loved markers!
Not many new supplies that I remember but if I picked something I enjoyed it would be the lined notebook tablet.
Christine
September 14, 2021
I loved getting markers and crayons, I felt like I could accomplish anything. The new year,always felt like a new beginning.