Raise your hand if you remember Trapper-Keepers, lots of spiral notebooks, and cardboard pencil boxes from your school days. Anything I could do to personalize these school materials and put my own stamp on them, I did. In first grade, I went so far as to ask my mom to cover my pencil box in pretty wrapping paper so it would look different from everyone else’s on the planet. I guess that need to turn the boring, mass-produced product into my own creative masterpiece still lingers, because here I am as an adult teaching my own kids, and I’m still doing the same thing! I love it when we turn the boring cover of their binder or notebook into something they want to see every day.