Make your back-to-school breakfast extra special with simple DIY Notebook Paper Plates and tasty pencil-shaped waffles.

The start of a new school year brings lots of our favorite traditions including a back-to-school parade, back-to-school interviews, and one of my family’s favorite traditions, our Back to School breakfast. These fun breakfasts have become a favorite part of starting a new school year and it’s such a simple way to turn an otherwise ordinary morning into an extraordinary affair.  

Create a place setting that has all the “write” stuff.  From DIY fun back-to-school breakfast notebook paper plates to pencil-shaped waffles it’s just what your kids need to start the school year off on the right foot.

I love making things extra special for my kids, but I’m a firm believer in simplicity too.  That’s why this project is perfect.  Not only does it use items I already have but it takes less than 15 minutes to create.  

How to Make DIY Notebook Paper Plates

DIY Notebook Plate Supplies: 

• Chinet Classic White Plates
• Chinet Cut Crystal Dessert Plates
• Blue Colored Pencil
• Red Colored Pencil
• Ruler

Step 1: 

Take a ruler and place it horizontally across the Chinet Classic White Plate, use the blue colored pencil to carefully draw lines across the paper plate.  Continue down the plate until it looks like a piece of lined notebook paper.

Step 2: 

Now take the ruler and place it vertically on the left side of the paper plate.  Use the red colored pencil to draw a line down the edge of the paper plate.

Step 3: 

Put a Chinet Cut Crystal dessert plate on top of your DIY notebook paper plate, carefully place the waffle pencil on top, and serve with orange juice for a fun and special back-to-school breakfast.

Back to School Pencil-Shaped Waffles

Once you’ve created these fun notebook-themed paper plates you will need something yummy to serve for breakfast.  Pencil-shaped waffles are just what these creative plates need and the best part is they are so simple to create.  

Back to School Pencil Waffles

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Make the back-to-school breakfast extra special with simple DIY Notebook Paper Plates and tasty pencil-shaped waffles.

Ingredients

• Frozen Waffles
• Peanut Butter
• Raspberries
• Dried Pineapple
• Raisins 
• Chinet Plastic Knife

Instructions

1. Toast the frozen waffles and use the knife to trim the edges of the waffle off to make a rectangle.
2. Use one of the trimmed pieces of the waffle and cut a triangle shape for the bottom of your pencil.
3. Spread peanut butter on the bottom of the cut pencil piece.
4. Add a raisin to the bottom of the waffle pencil tip covered in peanut butter.
5. Use the dried pineapple and raspberries to create the top part of the pencil.

 Sometimes I think my kids are getting too old for these silly traditions and I consider not doing them.  But, inevitably one of them will bring it up and make sure that I’m planning something fun for the first day of school.  I think our little back-to-school breakfast tradition helps ease those first-day jitters and sets the tone for the day. 

This easy back-to-school breakfast is just what your kids need to start the new school year off on the “write” foot!  

What special back-to-school traditions do you have?  We love to hear how others make special memories to celebrate milestone occasions like the start of a new school year.