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Notepad Holder

Materials

  • Scissors
  • Craft glue
  • Heavy cardboard
  • Rickrack
  • Fabric
  • Two magnetic strips
  • Notepad Decorations

Directions

  1. Cut the cardboard and the fabric two inches longer and two inches wider than the notepad.
  2. Glue the fabric onto the cardboard.
  3. Glue rickrack around the edge of the cardboard.
  4. Glue two magnetic strips onto the back of the cardboard.
  5. Glue the notepad onto the center of the fabric.
  6. Have your child decorate the fabric with glitter glue, fabric paint, or tiny dried flowers. Let the glue and/or paint dry.

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Copyright © 2001 by Patricia Kuffner. Excerpted from The Children's Busy Book with permission of its publisher, Meadowbrook Press.

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