GETTING STARTED
MATERIALS
COVERS
BOOK ASSEMBLING
MATERIALS
CHIPBOARD
Two pieces, 4.5" x 4.5"
COLORED PAPER
Two pieces of construction paper, 6.5" x 6.5"
DRAWING PAPER
22+ pieces, 4" x 4"
GRAPHITE PENCIL
One HB Pencil
WATERCOLORS
One palette
COLORED PENCIL
One black pencil,
One white pencil
PENCIL SHARPENER
One
PEN
Black roller ink pen 0.5mm
RUBBER ERASER
One
PAINT BRUSH
Variety of watercolor brush sizes
GLUE
Standard liquid glue,
glue stick
BLENDING STOMP
One, any size
SPONGE
Various kinds
STRAW
One
COTTON SWABS
Three
TISSUE PAPER
Various colors,
Color bleeding
COVERS
Directions for Assembling the Book Covers
GATHER SUPPLIES
To make the covers you will need two 4.5" x 4.5" pieces of chipboard, two 6.5" x 6.5" pieces of colored construction paper, a glue stick, and a pair of scissors.
ATTACH PAPER
Glue your chipboard in the center of your construction paper.
SNIP CORNERS
Snip off the corners of the paper at a 45° angle. Be sure to leave a small space between the chipboard corners and the new paper edge. Do not cut right to the board, or leave too much space.
FOLD
Fold down one side of your paper. Then apply glue to the side of the chipboard and the paper flap. Fold over and smooth it into place. Repeat on the side opposite of the original fold.
PUSH CORNERS
Use your finger to push in the corner pocket made from folding over the paper. Do this to all four corner pockets.
REPEAT
Repeat the folding and glueing process on the remaining two sides. The paper should now be securely and neatly attached.
DECORATE
Use crayons, pencils, markers and paint pens to decorate the covers of your book.
BOOK ASSEMBLING
Using white glue and a stiff brush, apply glue to the uncovered area on the inside of the book cover.
Apply a square of glue along the border of your book page.
Place the page in the center of the book cover so that the exposed cardboard is now covered with a book page.
Moving on, you will be gluing your pages into pairs. To create a pair, place a page upside down onto the guide sheet. Be sure the back side of the page is face up. Use a brush to apply a thin line of glue along the right and left side of the page.
Take a new page and place it on top of original page. The first page and our second page are now glued together as a pair. Set the pair aside and glue the rest of your pages into pairs.
Place a pair on the glue mat. Be sure that the sides are glued together, but that the top and bottom are not.
Run a thin line of glue through the center of your page. The line should run from top to bottom.
First, make sure that your open ends align with the top and bottom of the page. Then, place your pair over the page with glue.
Repeat the steps to glue your pairs into a stack.
Once your stack is complete attach your covers. Place a line of glue down the center of your cover page. Check to be sure that your stack of pairs are glued on the sides but open at the top and bottom. Place the end of your stack on the glued cover.
