Create a high school student planner using a 3-ring binder and free printable student planner that includes weekly and daily planner sheets, to-do lists, assignment trackers, upcoming tests, and quiz trackers. Personalize the binder using a Cricut cutting machine and permanent vinyl.
It’s the 2020’s and the school day looks a little different for almost everyone. Online schools, hybrid schools, and homeschool have all become buzzwords for education in the last few years. No matter your educational choice for your family, a student planner will help keep everyone organized and on task.
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Our family homeschools, so the front of our student planner binder is this adorable “Home Sweet Home School” design from Cricut’s Design Space. But you can find many other designs in Cricut Design Space to express your family’s educational choices, favorite subjects, or just some fun attitude.
Pair this homeschool planner with a homeschool report card, too! The planner is free when you join our newsletter at the end of the post. You can purchase the report card here:
Personalized Printable Student Planner
The student planner pages can be used for any school option – homeschool, online, or in-person school. And with Cricut, you can be sure to find a fun way to personalize the planner for each of your kids.
Materials for Student Planner Binder:
- 3 ring binder
- Cricut Cutting Machine – we used a Cricut Explore 2 for this
- 2 colors of Cricut Vinyl (we used Premium Vinyl and Glitter Vinyl)
- Cricut Standard Grip Cutting Mat
- Cricut Transfer Tape
- Cricut Strong Grip Transfer Tape if using Glitter Vinyl
- Cricut Weeding Tools
- Free student planner (see below to download)
How to Make a High School Student Planner Binder:
Start by logging into your Cricut Design Space account. Grab the design in our saved projects – Homeschool Student Planner. Add the design to Design Space.
You will notice that this design is in 2 colors. This was our first time working with two different vinyl colors, and it was really easy. The template is in red and pink. You can choose whatever two colors you like.
We did our student planner binder in Cricut Premium vinyl in teal and Cricut gold glitter vinyl. You can use either permanent or removable vinyl. We used removable in case we wanted to change up the look of the planner during the school year.
Once you have picked out your vinyl colors, hit the “Make It” button in Cricut Design Space on the planner design. Because it is two colors, this design cuts on 2 mats. You can use the same mat and cut the first cut, then do the second one on the same mat.
Put the first vinyl color on a standard cutting mat and load it into your Cricut machine. Hit continue, and Design Space will connect via Bluetooth to your machine. Once it is ready, hit the Cricut C on your machine to begin cutting.
The machine will cut the first cut (the words “sweet” and “school”). It will pause after that cut and you can put the second vinyl on the mat and cut that.
Once both sets of words are cut, it’s time to weed. For tips on weeding check out A Beginner Guide to Crafting with the Cricut Explore Air 2. When weeding the words “school” and “sweet”, keep the words together on the backing for spacing.
Next, weed the two “home” words in the other color. We kept them on the same backing to start, but you will see that we ended up cutting them apart later.
Now that the weeding is complete, it is time to put the words on a 3-ring binder. We tried this originally with inexpensive “clear view” binders. These are the binders with plastic on the front so you can put a piece of paper in. Getting the vinyl to stay on the “clear view” binders was extremely difficult. Binders with a more book or cardboard front worked much better.
Start with the “sweet” and “school” cuts. Lay regular transfer paper on the front of the words. Then remove the backing. Place the words so that “school” is centered and on the bottom of the binder.
Use a Cricut rubbing tool to firmly rub over the words, so they stick to the binder. Carefully remove the transfer paper from the front of the words.
Next, you add the word “HOME” above both “sweet” and “school”. Cut the two cut-outs “HOME”s apart and work with them one at a time. Make sure to use a Strong Grip transfer paper if you are working with glitter vinyl.
Transfer HOME to fill in the holes on the planner. Go slowly and keep rubbing the words, so they stick to the planner. Now the outside of your student planner is ready to go.
Fill the Binder with Student Planner Sheets
You can fill the inside of the planner with any planning pages you like. You can download our free student planner sheets below. They include a daily schedule by the hour (this is great for online public school!), a weekly planner, a to-do list (great for chores), an assignment tracker, and a test tracker.
Use a three-hole punch to add holes to as many sheets as you need and put them in your binder. Now you have a personalized student planner to make this the best school year yet.