Happy 1st Day of School Pencils

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My boys and I made these candy pencils for their teachers, the Librarian, the music and PE teacher and their principal too.

Here's what you'll need for each Rolo Pencils:

1 pack of Rolos

1 Hershey Kiss (we used almond)

a strip of pink cardstock

a circle of pink cardstock

a strip of mirrored cardstock

hot glue, quick dry glue or redline tape

a paper crimper if you have one

I've included free printables for this project. Click here to download the free printable in PDF format, or scroll down for the file in jpg format. This printable fits 2 pencils on each page. Cut the paper down to 4 1/2" x 6" and run it through the paper crimper to add the texture. This really helps is look like a pencil. :)

Cut the metallic mirrored paper to 1/4" x 5" (you can also use aluminum foil for this part). This will be the metal crimp of the pencil that holds the eraser on. I used red line sticky tape for this paper. Cut a strip of pink cardstock to 1/2" x 5" and a pink cardstock circle with a 1" punch or diecutter.

First glue the Hershey Kiss to the Rolo pack with some hot glue. Add adhesive to the yellow cardstock layer. I used ATG tape and my two sons found this easy enough, all not all the labels were super straight. :) Make sure to align the "no. 2" pencil label with the end of the Rolos that don't have the Kiss on it. This will be the eraser end.

Next, we used ATG tape runner to add the pink strip to the eraser end and then added the pink circle to finish of the eraser. Try your best to put all the strip seams to the back of the pencil. 

Next, attach the mirrored strip over the eraser end.  Again, try to keep your seams to the back of the pencil. We did trim our paper strips to keep them hidden if we needed to.

See, doesn't it look like a pencil eraser? :)

So this is what your pencil will turn out like. We loved them so much that my two sons and I made a total of 12 of them to give to all the wonderful teachers in our lives. 

Here is your printable for this project if you'd like it.

Right click on the image to save it to your computer in jpg format, or 

Click here to download the free printable in PDF format.

Simply print the free file onto a piece of 8 1/2" x 11" yellow cardstock, cut to 4 1/2" x 6", run it through a paper crimper is you have it and attach it to your Rolos.

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