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Thirteen ways to turn a plain pencil case into a pastel-colored character before the first day back.

Troom Troom SELECT, the offshoot of the rapid-fire craft network Troom Troom, packs its “13 DIY Kawaii School Supplies!” tutorial with back-to-school projects built around the Japanese kawaii aesthetic — the wide-eyed, pastel-colored, everything-has-a-face style of cute. Instead of buying decorated stationery, the hosts walk through turning ordinary notebooks, erasers, and pencil holders into miniature characters using craft-drawer basics: foamiran sheets, felt, pompons, and paint.

• The video runs through thirteen separate DIY projects, each converting a standard piece of classroom stationery into a Kawaii-themed accessory.
• Materials span from plastic balls, glitter, and beads to tin cans, Lego bricks, felting wool, and drinking straws — nearly thirty items pulled from the craft box rather than a specialty store.
• Every build follows the same format: transform a functional item (notebook, eraser, pencil case, tape dispenser) into a cute character with a painted or glued-on face.

The Kawaii Aesthetic, Explained Through a Pencil Case

Kawaii culture treats “cute” as a design language rather than a compliment — big eyes, blush marks, pastel palettes, and rounded shapes applied to objects that have no business looking adorable. Troom Troom SELECT leans into that by giving otherwise utilitarian school gear the same treatment: googly eyes on a tape dispenser, a felt face on an eraser, pompon ears on a paper clip. The appeal for the channel’s young audience is less about the finished object’s usefulness and more about the transformation itself — plain becomes personality.

That format is why Troom Troom has built such a durable following across YouTube: cheap materials, a fast visual payoff, and a theme — in this case Kawaii — that gives thirteen unrelated projects a consistent look. Viewers browsing the channel’s back catalog will recognize the same blueprint applied to slime videos, life hacks, and prank builds.

The Materials Doing the Heavy Lifting

Nothing in the supply list requires a trip past the local craft aisle. The tutorial calls for plastic balls, paints, brushes, glue, pompons, glitter, felt, and foamiran sheets as the core building blocks, then adds box cutters and tin cans for structural projects like pencil holders. Soft-toy stuffing filler, beads, needle and thread come into play for anything that needs to hold a shape, while colored cardboard, notebooks, notepads, and felting wool cover the paper-based builds.

Smaller items round out the list and explain some of the more inventive builds: self-adhesive paper, paper clips, Lego bricks, long toothpicks, household and makeup sponges, small baskets, and drinking straws. Readers who enjoy this kind of low-cost, high-payoff build often gravitate toward the broader life hacks corner of DIY content, where the same “everyday object, new use” logic drives most of the videos.

Thirteen projects, one aesthetic, and a supply list built almost entirely from the craft drawer.

Factors Driving Format Repeatability

Troom Troom SELECT’s structure is built for skimming — a viewer can jump to the third or ninth project without losing context, because each segment is self-contained: pick an item, pick a material, add a face. That modularity is also what makes the “back to school” framing effective. A pencil case, an eraser, and a notebook don’t need to relate to one another narratively; they only need to share the Kawaii look to feel like a cohesive set of thirteen.

For anyone building similar projects at home, the crossover with general craft projects content is obvious — foamiran and felt work the same way whether the end result is a Kawaii eraser or a home décor piece, and the box-cutter-and-tin-can builds borrow directly from basic upcycling technique.

None of the thirteen builds require anything more advanced than glue, scissors, and patience with small pom-poms — which is exactly the point. Troom Troom SELECT has built an entire back-to-school category around the idea that the cutest stationery on a kid’s desk is the stuff nobody bought.