Up-cycled Cereal Box Notebook

Use collected items to make a handy dandy notebook!

All you need is a few office supplies that are easily found in your school or public library, printed one sided paper from the recycling bin, and a cereal box.

Printed paper w/ at least one blank side
Empty cereal box
Cord to bind the notebook (hemp cord was used in this project)
Paper cutter (scissors or a straight razor can also be used)
Three hole puncher (a single hand held can be used)
Ruler
Pencil or pen

NOTE: A great place to find tons of paper is in your school office, home or library paper recycling bin!

Step 1 Step 1

Cut the upper horizontal excess tab off of the flattened cereal box. Now repeat by cutting the lower horizontal excess tab.

Comments

[hartmannsclass]

Very nice instructions and clear photographs. Instead of cutting apart the narrow side that will be on the left of the cover, I crease and fold it in half vertically. Insert the paper and use a strong staple to hold them in place. Turn the notebook over and press the staple prongs flatter with the side of the stapler. There are lots of cute duct tapes out these days and sometimes I use it to cover the binding side of the book.

[kaypgirl]

On A. it should be "insert the loose ends in hole #2 back to front. Probably not needed for anyone who could see the pictures, but I could only copy the words really quickly w/o looking at the pics and ended up doing it backwards.

[SageMinto]

This is so creative!!
Why hasn't anyone commented yet?!!

I am trying this out the soonest a empty cereal box reveals itself. Thank you for creating this! :)