Capture Back-to-School Memories With Canon

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When your kids are ready to start their first day of school, hand them these DIY pennant flags, and snap some back-to-school pictures! While our phones make it so easy to take photos nowadays, it’s also easy to forget about them. Or, you have to scroll through hundreds of photos to relive your favorite memories. But when we print our photos, we can look at them every day!
We used our Canon IVY to print these 2″x3″ back-to-school pictures. Since these photos have a peel-and-stick back, we thought it would be fun to stick them on our patterned paper. Our designer Lindsay created these patterns to match the pennants and cut the paper to look like a frame. You could put these photos on your fridge or give them to family and friends. Either way, the IVY Photo Printer makes it easy!
Print Your Favorite Photos
This Mini Photo Printer by Canon comes in three different colors: Rose Gold, Slate Grey, and Mint Green. It’s also small enough for your pocket or purse. This makes it easy to carry the IVY around and print photos on the go. We love how portable it is and that you can print photos from your smartphone or social media pages! If you’re looking for other printers to help you make high-quality paper crafts, Canon also has a line of crafting printers.
Besides using the mini printer for back-to-school pictures and DIY crafts, you can use it to print any photos you want. If most of your memories live on your phone, the IVY Mini Photo Printer makes it easy to let your memories live in real life! All you have to do is download the Canon Mini Print app. Then, connect your smartphone to the IVY printer through Bluetooth. Now you can print photos from your phone—as well as your favorite pictures on Instagram or Facebook.
You can also use the app to customize your photos with frames, emojis, text, and stickers. We think this is a fun feature, no matter how old you are! Have kids in middle school, high school, or college? They can use the IVY Photo Printer to personalize their book covers, lockers, or dorm room with the photos they love most.
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Tools
- Scissors
- Tape (We used Scotch Extra Strength Adhesive Roller)
Materials
- 1/2″ Round Wood Bead
- Wooden Dowel or Natural Wood Dowel
- White Cardstock
Steps
Our designer Krista created these pennant flags for kids in preschool and up to fifth grade. To make this project, just stick a wood bead on top of a wood dowel. You could also use a simple Bamboo skewer instead. After printing the pennants on white cardstock, cut the flags out with scissors, and use tape to secure the pennant flags on the dowels. You’ll find two printable options below—one with the year “2018” on it and one without.
Don’t forget to comment below! Let us know why you’d like your own IVY printer, and you’ll be entered to win a Canon IVY Rose Gold Mini Photo Printer. (Giveaway ended on Wednesday, 8/22 at 11:59 p.m. PST. Congrats to the winner, Darcie L!)
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Canon. The opinions and text are all mine.
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102 Comments
Any chance you can make one for 2020?
Hi Seema,
We may do something similar for 2020! However there is a PDF that includes all of the pennants without the date so they can be used for any year. 🙂
Hi Lia! My daughter’s school calendar starts in February, so I print the pennants without the date, but the date was printed anyway
Hi Laura,
Please be sure you are downloading and selecting the “Back to School Pennants” not the “Back to School Pennants – 2018”
I love that it’s so portable! It’d be great to be able to print photos anywhere.
I make mini albums for my grands, this would be perfect! Smaller pictures would alleviate a lot if my cropping! And so convenient!
This printer would lessen ny mom guilt. So many printed pictures of my first baby. Only one of my second. My second deserves some space on our walls
I love using instant cameras, but this would be great for printing slightly more curated photos on the go, as well!
To make a colorful sequence of paper flowers pictures 🌺🌷🌸
Such a cool thing to be able to print photos of the kids for mom!!
This little printer would be so cute to use for my guestbook at our upcoming wedding! So easy! A great alternative to those mini polaroids and better quality pictures. Plus, who doesn’t love rose gold?
I’d use it for my art journaling in my Hobonichi! I pretty much do a mix of writing, scrapbooking, painting, sketching and watercolor coloring in my journal. It’s getting so chubby and beautiful! Too chubby actually because I added a lot of Instax pictures to it! This printer would help me have less bulk!
I’d use it for my art journaling in my Hobonichi! I pretty much do a mix of writing, scrapbooking, painting, sketching and watercolor coloring in my journal. It’s getting so chubby and beautiful!
I would take pictures of family and friends whenever we get together. It would be fun to print out pictures everytime we meet 😊
I would use it to make a wall “yearbook” and then at the end of the year put all the photos together for our exchange student to bring home with them!
This would be perfect to take to college! I love printing out pictures and hanging them on fairy lights around my dorm room.
I would love to win this mini printer to document our road trip from North Carolina to California coming up in October! It is the perfect size for traveling and it would be so easy and convenient to move! 🙂
This printer seems amazing!! As a pre-school teacher this would be such a wonderful tool for projects and etc. It would be a blessing to win this printer🤗
For all my wedding event pictures. As well use it during the reception as an alternative to a photo booth for the guest. After the wedding I will use to print pictures of my nephew/nieces.
I love the rose gold color! ❤️
Oh the possibilities!!!! I’d love to use this camera to make some scrapbooking memories from my kids. My oldest is starting JK this year and I’d love to take pictures of him. Oh!!! How about some instant fridge artwork?!?
I would love to encourage my kids to make prints of the photos they take using this printer.
This little thing has so many possibilities it’s hard to put down just one. My mind is running amuck.
thanks for the opportunity and LOVE your creative mind.
This would be great for taking pics of the kids school projects to print and add to their school binders for homeschool!
This printer would be a dream come true! My 5yr old triplet grandgirls live in TX and I live in IL so being able to “print on the go” anytime, anywhere would make my heart very happy 💕In today’s digital world and Facebook posts to have an actual photo paper photo is a rarity and I absolutely am a proud GaGa (Grandma) who LOVES to show off her gorgeous girls whenever & to whom ever will look. I can’t help it!!! 🤪
PS: Love all your work Lia!
I love the Canon Ivy printer! Would be so fun to have one. I’d use it to do thank you notes/favors for my boys birthday parties, taking pictures with each of their guests. It would also be cool to organize a closet/take pics of outfits that you could stick to a closet key/guide.
We have lots of weddings coming up and it would be great to snap and print pics right there….plus would use it for pics of grandpuppies.
I would use this portable printer in rose gold to carry around and print pictures of my grandchildren, dog, horses and chickens. Christmas tags too.
Thanks for offering the Canon IVY Mini Photo Printer in Rose Gold! What a wonderful tool! We are expecting our first grandchild this fall and I wasn’t good at taking time to take pictures when my children were growing up, but I promise I will be a great grandma by taking lots of pictures and share them with others.
My 89-year-old mom loves pictures of family and friends!
My very first project would be the darling sailor onesie from Lia’s project since we know it is a boy and that his room will have an underwater theme!!! We can create such fun!
To get all the photos off my phone!
I’d love to be able to use it to take pictures of my kids at their sports events with their friends and print a copy for the friend to take with! I think it would also be great for Christmas ornament crafting! So many uses.
Omg i have been wanting one of these for months now!
Working with my Autistic children everyday presents many memorable moments. This printer would enable me to print the many pictures taken right away for projects, and displays.
I would use that handy little printer to take pictures of my “Super Scientist” as they are presenting to the class and then give them a photo to go with their certificate! That would be so cool!!
i would use it for printing pictures of my 4 granddaughters
I would love to win the printer! I would use it to print out the endless pictures that get “stuck” on my phone. I do books for my kids school year, putting most papers and information in them each year. The one thing that I have not done is include pictures, that I’ve taken, from all the events. This would be a great way to do that!
My children are HS age and time is moving faster than I would like. I find myself capturing all the memories and would love to be able to print them quickly. These are truly golden moments with my kids!
I’m a teacher and this printer would be a great way help in creating displays of all the photos I take of my students at work. The prints would be great for sharing with students and families or for classroom displays.
What a cute gadget. I would love to print family photos for sharing, card and mini album making, and other printables.
I would love to use this printer for my preschool dept . So many things we could do with this little beauty !!!
I would use this fantastic little Ivy printer for everything. It is neat and nifty and oh so portable, what a great piece of equipment to enhance your records of everyday activities!
I would enjoy creating photos for my nursing home friends that I visit and Are afraid of technology and show them how easy it is to make prints with this cute canon Ivy printer and how fast we can make our art projects with the photos we take.(oh but of course after they fix their hair.!! Lol
Too cute! And practical for space.
Would love to print grandchildren’s pictures to share with large family.
I’d love to be able to send my 90 year old mother pictures of her great granddaughter!
I would use the Ivy printer for everything! It is so neat and nifty and would enhance any project you wanted to upload with ease. I hope I am fortunate enough to win, then I could print off photos of my craft creations to share them with others.
I would be using for so many items, like scrapbooking, cards and banners. How fun..
I usually order to have my digital pictures made into physical photos. However, it has been a while since I’ve done this and I have a lot of photos that I’d love to print out. Thank you for the giveaway! 🙂
I would use this every day at home to take pictures of my fur baby and human babies! I would also use this printer at work since I do event planning and I know my clients would love this!!!
I have three children and would love to be able to print photos from my phone! I also teach fifth grade and this would be an amazing thing to use in my classroom. Thanks for offering this great giveaway!
I would love to use this to make some awesome personalized gifts for the grandparents. They love cute pictures of the kids!
I would take pictures of my cats and make collages for the back of the bathroom door!
I would take this printer everywhere! I love the idea of being out with friends and family, creating memories, snapping pics & selfies – whip out my Ivy and print them a copy then & there!
We are starting our home school journey. I’d love the printer to print out photos as we chronicle our journey.
Would use it to take a picture of my students on their first day of classes to post on the way and to take last day of classes to track growth. (;
I may have a slight obsession with my new puppy, so of course this printer would be taken on the go so I could print pictures of him and give them out like business cards 😂
I would use this printer for assorted paper projects and scrapbooking!
How cute is this printer?! I would use it to print pictures of my niece & nephews!
Love these! This printer would be PERFECT. I use my old planner pages as a scrapbook and my husband is tired of our colored ink running out. haha This would be perfect.
I would use it for my planner! Thanks for giving us this opportunity to win!
Love this idea. I would use it for all those special occasions when you take an awesome picture and the person asks you if you can send them a copy of it to them. Everyone has a keepsake of the memory right away!
Oh my goodness! I would use this for everything I do! I would definitely want to use it for my Christmas card photos! It’s so small and handy!❤️
I would love to use it to complete my son’s baby book. Would be so much more convenient than sending away for prints or running to 1 hr printing each week.
I would love to travel with this printer to document all the travels we have coming up soon. Oooo! Gurl. I hope I win it 🤞
I would use the IVY to quickly add photos to my planner while I’m on the go. Owning one of these would help me to actually print some of the many photos I have in my phone. And since I love a sticker, the sticky back is really exciting to me!!
Thanks for the opportunity to win such a fun prize!!😍 Rose gold is my favorite!! I’d use my printer to print photos of my sweet, first grandbabies and surprise my daughter’s with an album of the prints at Christmas!!! Of course I’d have to make one for myself too!!😉
I would use the printer to finally print all the photos that live on my phone!
I would use this printer to print photos of my family on demand.
I would let the 8 and 11 year olds use it. Their perspective on the world in their photographs is amazing and never ceases to amaze me. This would allow them to ‘see’ their vision
I’d love this for printing photos on the go; especially on vacation!
I would use this printer for my planner and my scrapbooking 💜💜
We’re expecting a baby girl any time now. I’d use this printer to fill her “Baby”s first year” book and print monthly pictures of her and all her firsts!
I love this little printer!! I have been searching for one that was portable and this is perfect! I would use it for scrapbooking especially when I am at a retreat or class!!
Everything.
It would be so much fun to take cute snapshots and make a collage board of my kids for the school year, starting with the first day of school, all the important things in between, and ending with the last day of school.
What a fantastic giveaway!
Oh this little jewel and I would quickly become BFF’s, especially since I have a brand new granddaughter! 💕💕💕
I would use the printer to print photos of flowers.🌸. Great to be able to refer to pictures while creating paper flowers or painting. Would like to create a mood board.
This would be perfect to get photos off my phone an into albums to enjoy!
I would love an ivy printer for my little girl whose 5. Even at 5 she’s full of spunk and a total diy craft fanatic. Being able to print out pictures whenever she want vs waiting for mommy to go to the store or order online is a total game changer. And saves mommy time too.
What an awesome crafting tool! I’d use this printer for memory keeping, making cards and probably other random crafts too!
As a teacher, this will be great to use in the classroom. Possibilities are endless!
That would be so amazing!!
I would love to use this for photos of my grandson . It would be great to be able to print the photos from my phone or ones that are messaged to me.
Thank you so much for this giveaway.I would gift this to my daughter, who is due to have my first grandchild in January. She lives in Illinois, and we live in Nevada, so she could send all those precious moment photos to us. I would start a “Grandma Loves it When You…” book to give back to her on her birthday.
This would be so fun to use with kids.
I would use the printer at birthday parties so guests can print pictures taken to keep or put in a scrap book for the celebrant! 🙂
Love your stuff Lia! I am 16 and my family does foster care for infants. I love sending scrapbook pages to the babies’ parents and their adoptive families depending on the situation. Many kids in foster care grow up without baby pictures and my hope is to eliminate th at problem for the kids in our home. I would use the mini photo printer to quickly and easily print all my photos! ❤
This little printer would be so fun to have for scrapbooking and for craft projects!
I would love to use this to make mini pictures for my memory album! I love taking pictures of my family and making scrapbooks to look back on 🙂
My soon to be kindergartener is so interested in photography it would be fun to use this to print out her creations and add to her wall of art in our kitchen!
This would be perfect for scrapbooking. Would love to win. Thank you for the chance
Great idea for first day announcements! The boys in this blog are super cute too! Hope they have a great first day at school.
Congratulations, you’re our winner! We’ll email you for your address 🙂
Amazing! Hoping I win! 😉
This would be perfect for all the pictures of my twins that I take! It would also be great to be able to print out some of their art project photos so they can decorate their room with them and give some to grandma.
Thank you for the chance to win this cute Canon printer! I have been looking at something like this to create pictures of the cards I make!
I would use the Canon Ivy Mini Photo printer to print monthly photos of my 3 daughters. I’d love to give it to them as a keepsake when they move out. Nowadays we have thousands of pictures on our phones but rarely print then – which is such a shame
My 92 year old mom is always bugging me to make prints of photos I share with her from my phone. She’s “old school” LOl
Pictures of my nieces and nephew
I’d love this printer to print pictures of my students! It would be great to be able to print pictures right away!
That is such as a cute printer, perfect size! & Rose gold is my favorite or maybe mint or white and I could decorate it! 🙂
I made a sign for my son each year for his first day. I’ve used my Zink hAppy printer to print out the pix and stick them right onto the sign and then my scrapbook page is done! I’d love another printer to play with.
I would use this printer to print monthly photos of my son to create a banner for his first birthday. Can’t wait use to use some Lia membership ideas! What an awesome printer!
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