Here's what I started with:
A Pencil Box
Letter stickers
Embellishing stickers
A Photo on Printer Paper
A Piece of Scrapbook Paper
Decoupage Glue
Foam Brush
First I cut the craft paper to fit the pencil box. Then painted the decoupage glue onto the pencil box and placed the paper on it. I then smoothed out the paper with my fingers.
Next I cut the photo to fit the box in a shape that I thought looked nice. I painted the decoupage glue on the photo and placed the photo on the paper where I wanted it to go. Again I smoothed it out with my fingers.
I then spelled my daughters name with stickers and painted the decoupage glue over the photo, paper and stickers. Any glue that overflowed onto the clear part of the pencil box, I wiped off with a wet cloth.
After it dried, I decided to embellish it a little more with some sparkly flower stickers, with jewels in the center. Then I painted on another coat of decoupage.
It was dry about an hour later. Finally finished and ready for her desk, in her new First Grade classroom.
Ava is going to feel so much better this year, being at school all day. All she has to do when she's missing us, is to look down into her desk and see her family's smiling faces to feel more at home.