Gather your art materials together for this project!
You might just need a little adult support.
When closed, my landscape book front cover measures 10.5 x 15 cm, which is roughly A6 size.
The inside sheets, when folded, are slightly smaller at 10 x 14cm, but cutting them down is optional.
You will need:
1: Paper - you can use any type you like such as coloured, graphed, old book pages or tracing paper.
2: Scissors
3: Needle & thread
4: Ruler & pencil
5: Paper clips - to secure or you could try clothes pegs.
What to do!
To begin you will need 1 A4 sheet of card for a landscape book such as above or 1 A5 sheet folded in half to make a portrait book.
For the landscape book fold one A4 sheet in half to make A5 and then fold in half again to make A6, unfold and cut across the long fold in the middle. This will give you two front covers, meaning you can make two mini art books.
For the inside sheets, do the same again, folding the a4 paper twice and cutting along the long fold, remembering that each sheet is a folded sheet. Or, if you are making a portrait book, fold A5 sheets in half.
Once you have have 5-6 A6 sized inside sheets, you can, if you like, cut them all down slightly on the top and sides. This means that your inside pages will be slightly smaller than your front cover, but don’t panic you don’t have to cut them down!
Arrange and organise your inside sheets and, once you are happy, put them inside each other and give them a bang on the table to ensure pages are not wonky (as shown above). Place sheets open inside the open front cover, secure with paper clips to hold the pages in place.
Use a needle to punch 2 holes into the seam of the book. Now take a needle and thread and sew through both holes leaving a tail on the inside cover, as seen in photo above, and tie both ends together.
Here’s a tip! If you don’t have a needle and thread try using string or ribbon after hole-punching the holes. Or, staple the book together along the spine, this can then be covered with masking tape.
Once your Mini Art Book is done have fun decorating it however you like, and draw and write in the pages.
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