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Making Your Own

BOOKS
Making handmade books out of your child’s story is a great way to
celebrate the enjoyment of writing. It’s also a great way to nurture a
life-long love for books.
You can create simple books in many ways, and the materials can usu-
ally be found around the house:

• Cut out shapes from a brown-paper bag to use


as pages for the book. Books don’t always have
to be square or rectangular - try a circle. It’s also
fun to use colored craft paper.
• Spare cardboard from boxes can be used as the
front and back pages to make the book stronger.
• Make an accordion book for a fun variation. (see
my photo sample)
• Use a hole-punch along the spine to tie ribbon,
yarn, string or thread through it to hold the pages
togeth er. Brass brads & waxed dental floss also
work well.
• Or use buttons along the spine edge to hold your
book together.
• Let your child illustrate the cover.
• Cut out pictures, shapes, and words from old
magazines to make collages in the book.
• If you’re out of child-safe paint, use candy- or
fruit-soaked water for a safe & fun alternative.

Book ideas:
• Have your child draw his or her
favorite story, using only pictures
to tell it.
• Write and illustrate a sequel or
prequel to a story (What is
Goldilocks’s life like? What if Alice
went back to Wonderland? What if
you had a friend like Robin Hood
or Thumbelina?)
• Make little books to give to friends
and family as gifts.

1
How to Make
BOOK
COVERS
Supplies:
Cardboard (enough for front and
back, the same size as your inside
pages)
Paper
Glue stick (or tape)
Scissors
Thread (needle if needed)
1 Buttons (optional)
Pens/crayons/etc.

Place one of the pieces of card-


board on the paper and cut around
the cardboard, leaving about one
inch of paper on each side.

If you’d like, you can also glue the


cardboard to the paper to make
sure it stays in place.
2
Cut off the corners from the paper,
leaving the corners of the card-
board free at their points.

This side will be the inside of the


cover.

2
Glue (or tape) the edges of the pa-
per over the cardboard.

If you don’t like how this looks, you


can glue a piece of paper to cover
up the edges.

Repeat steps 2-4 to make the other


4 side of the book cover.

Arrange the inside pages how


you’d like them, then stack them
between the covers.

Get thread, floss, or yarn, and a


needle (if needed).

5
Punch or poke a hole near the bot-
tom and top of the book edge on
the left side, making sure it goes
through all of the pages.

If the book is tall, you may want to


also poke a hole inbetween these
two. Thread your string through the
6 holes.

3
If you’d like, use the string to tie
buttons onto the spine, or just finish
with a knot.

Decorate the cover however you’d


like, and you’re done!

This activity was designed by Elizabeth M. Berg for MrsP.com 4

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