A while back, I came across this post on how to make a notebook with a chalkboard cover: Chalkboard Notebooks – Honest To Nod. It reminded me that I’d made a similar one myself when I was a kid, back in the late 1970s.
To make the notebook below, I asked my father to cut me two pieces of particle board, which I painted black, and glued to the outside of a notebook that I’d trimmed to the same size. I somehow stenciled the word “notes” onto the front. I remember actually writing with chalk on the outside, but no trace of it remains.