DIY Disney Autograph Books

With our big Dis­ney­land trip for the Grand Open­ing of Cars Land this week, I’ve been busy mak­ing some fun stuff for the boys. I started by mak­ing some fun activ­ity boards for the car. But, since Big Brother was so into the char­ac­ters last sum­mer, I def­i­nitely wanted him to have an auto­graph book this time!

Lit­tle Brother now wants to do just about every­thing that Big Brother does. So, there was no way we could get away with only one auto­graph book. Dis­ney makes some very nice options, but I wanted to go the DIY route. Some­thing sim­ple, func­tional, and small enough for lit­tle hands to han­dle. So, here are the Dis­ney auto­graph books the boys will have:

Def­i­nitely sim­ple & small enough for lit­tle hands and we’ll test out the func­tion­al­ity this week. I was super excited to find these lit­tle faux leather memo books at an office sup­ply store for just $2 each. Since I had all the other sup­plies on hand, I made both of these for about $5 total out of pocket! The books had the main qual­i­ties I wanted–a cover I could dec­o­rate, plain white (non-lined) paper, and a place to attach a pen.

See?! Seems good, right?! But, def­i­nitely too plain! They needed a bit of a Dis­ney spruce up and I found some black vinyl in my craft­ing stash that was per­fect for the front. I used my Cri­cut to cut the word, “auto­graphs”, out of the vinyl. Then, since I don’t have a Dis­ney car­tridge or Sil­hou­ette to pro­gram my own designs, I just printed a Mickey head tem­plate (resized & printed from a Word doc) & cut the Mickey designs by hand. Super easy!

For the inside, I did the same thing with the vinyl, only cut out the boys’ names. And, I included a pic­ture of us with a char­ac­ter from the last trip. Then, I attached a small rib­bon to the Sharpie at one end and to the pen holder on the other. That way, hope­fully, the pens don’t get lost & the char­ac­ters have an eas­ier time with them. That’s it! Cer­tainly not the most elab­o­rate thing ever, but should work well for us and I love that it only cost me $5 total!

And, if you’re look­ing for more DIY Dis­ney ideas, make sure you check out the Dis­ney Crafts roundup post here!