Today I’m excited to share with you a tutorial to make these DIY Hogwarts House Notebooks as a part of the Happy Harry Potter Series at Rae Gun Ramblings. (I’ve even included a free printable of each of the notebook covers for you).
This is my third year participating in the Happy Harry Potter series. (you can see some of my other Harry Potter Craft Ideas HERE). I will have to say, that we are just a tiny bit Harry Potter obsessed at our house. We have the movies on iTunes and I think my 15-year-old daughter watches one almost every day… Nothing to watch on tv?? Just put Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on (that one is our favorite of the movies).
Last year we visited the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios. I’ve mentioned before that I think that place is AMAZING. In addition to all of the great rides and atmosphere, the shopping there is pretty cool too. You can buy house robes, t-shirts, hats, wands, owls and even a sorting hat.
Free Printable Hogwarts Notebook Covers & Harry Potter Craft Idea:
While we were perusing some of the shops I spied a set of House Notebooks and thought it was such a clever idea. The perfect thing for a “Muggle” to take with them on the first day of school (so they can imagine that they are really going to Hogwarts instead). I made a mental note to try to DIY them “someday”. This Harry Potter series seemed like the perfect time to check that project off of my “to make” list.
After I finished the project, my daughter saw these and snatched them up right away. She is planning to take them to school to use as notebooks for her classes.
The notebooks are SO easy to make, all you need to do is cover a composition notebook, you can find them all over the stores right now. Most of the ones I’ve seen are about 50 cents in the back to school section.
Are you ready to make one? NOTE: there was a typo in the notebook shown in the photo. The typo has been corrected in the downloadable file.
Supplies for Harry Potter Notebooks:
To Get the Printables:
Option #1:
-Free Printable Covers (download for FREE on the TEMPLATES page when you join our Newsletter) –
Option #2: You don’t have to join our newsletter, and can buy them instead for a very small fee
Construction Steps:
Begin by printing out your notebook covers on cardstock. You will have a front and a back for each notebook.
Trim off the excess paper from the left side of the print out for the front cover.
Cover the notebook cover with UHU Glue.
Align the trimmed notebook print out with the binding on the composition notebook. Make sure the print out is covering the entire notebook cover.
Smooth it out to secure the glue.
Flip the notebook over and using an x-acto knife trim off the excess paper so that is even with the edge of the notebook.
Repeat for the back cover.
That’s it!!
Other Harry Potter Inspired DIY Craft Ideas:
Exploding Eyeballs Cookie Recipe
Free Harry Potter SVG Files and Pencil Pouch Tutorial
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Jennie says
July 28, 2016 at 5:29 PMSuch a clever idea! Love these! 🙂
Sarina says
July 29, 2016 at 11:44 AMWhat a clever, darling idea! Awesome!
JoAnne T. says
July 29, 2016 at 11:07 PMThank you for the Hogwarts notebook covers. My daughter is a teacher and crazy for Harry Potter, she will love taking these notebooks to school in a couple weeks!
Katie says
July 31, 2016 at 8:57 AMMy partner HATES Harry Potter and I just showed my step-daughter all of the movies, (she still has trouble with reading) I’m going to make these for school starting, haha, it’s going to drive him nuts!
….ALSO a few for myself, he won’t be able to escape Pottermania! HA HA HA
Kristie says
August 4, 2016 at 12:48 AMThese are perfect!!! And I love the timing with the great school supplies prices.
Clara says
August 21, 2016 at 7:42 AMReading the labels..I have to ask: isn’t it “wizardry” ? Or is that an American English/British English thing?
tara pittman says
August 22, 2016 at 3:43 PMMy boys would love these notebooks. They are starting to read Harry Potter
Jill Robbins says
September 10, 2016 at 7:30 PMThese are darling. My husband and I went back and forth on buying our kids journals at the Wizarding World. We’ve wanted to get them journaling our adventures and they love Harry Potter stuff. We ended up deciding not to drop that much cash on a notebook so these are perfect!!!
Melissa Mortenson says
September 12, 2016 at 1:44 PMOh that makes me so happy! I’m glad I could help. Souvenir buying with kids is the worst! Mine can either never make up their minds or they want something at every store. Drives me batty 🙂
Deborah Middleton says
January 22, 2017 at 10:08 PMThanks so much! My son was sorted into Hufflepuff and wanted all black & yellow ones. I bought some Hufflepuff yellow cardstock and converted the image to B&W and printed them that way. Needless to say, he was super happy and I’m excited to hear what his friends thought of them when he gets home from the first day of school today (southern hemisphere schedule). I can send you a photo if you would like.
adamari leon says
February 7, 2017 at 9:33 PMwhat is the password?
Jillie says
April 11, 2017 at 5:07 PMI cant not find the link to download the notebook template ….. I have the password but cant find it sorry if someone could help me that would be awesome
Melissa Mortenson says
April 11, 2017 at 5:18 PMWhere the supplies are listed there is something that says “download on the templates page” click on those words.
Leah says
April 18, 2017 at 8:20 PMHi there, I would really like to make these for my daughters 12 birthday in June but the place where you said the link is, is not there. The words are there but there is no link. When I click on the words “download on the templates page” nothing happens. I have tried on both my tablet and on my laptop. Would you be able to help me with this? It would be very much appreciated.
Thank you
Melissa Mortenson says
April 18, 2017 at 8:40 PMTry it again. I made the words bold, to make it easier to see where to click for the downloads
Leah says
May 4, 2017 at 10:40 PMHi Melissa. It worked! Thank you so much for making it easier to download the book covers. Now I just have to print them. ?
valeria says
April 12, 2017 at 11:54 AMcomo descargo la plantilla de los cuadernos?
Ana says
May 23, 2017 at 6:20 PMThanck you so much! I loved!
Jessica Walker says
June 1, 2017 at 6:18 PMThis is such a great idea. I love notebooks and harry potter and crafting. I think I have a new project now!
Steph says
August 30, 2017 at 4:20 PMI hope you don’t mind I’m converting them over to jpegs for easier use, I like to print things out via microsoft word so I can ensure a perfect fit for the notebooks!
Steph says
August 30, 2017 at 4:37 PMI’m not going to edit them or redistribute them in anyway, I promise. I just want to make sure they fit onto the notebooks properly is all!
Stephanie Sparks says
December 7, 2017 at 3:54 PMI followed all the directions, and went round and round in loops. It didn’t download for me. Cute idea. Too bad it’s not working.
Nessa says
December 25, 2017 at 11:39 AMI’m not a creative person, and I’m really excited to come across your post. I’d like to purchase the notebooks, but am wondering if is $1.99 per notebook, or forthe whole set?
Melissa Mortenson says
December 27, 2017 at 4:09 PMNo, The cost is for the printable to make them yourself. I don’t sell finished notebooks.
Sarah Underhay says
July 28, 2018 at 10:02 AMI have subscribed to the newsletter but when I go to the templates page it wont let me on and asks me to confirm my email address which I have done a number of times.
Any help would be appreciated
Nicole says
December 19, 2018 at 8:18 PMFinally made my first hufflepuff. Have had it printed for ages. Don’t know what took me so long. Thanks so much it came out adorable and my daughter’s friend will love it!
Robin says
July 18, 2019 at 7:43 PMHello, Melissa. This is a super cool idea (rather than making fabric covers). I was curious about the label you used on these notebooks. I looked all through your printables, but didn’t see them. Were these also available for our use??? Appreciate all the freebies you provide!!! Thank you.
Melissa Mortenson says
July 19, 2019 at 4:33 PMThey aren’t labels, they are part of the printable. So they are already on the paper.