This week, I wanted to show you this fun, super fast way to fold paper into doll-sized books -- no sewing required here!
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who entered our giveaway! The winner is #17, Pam, who said "My favorite book growing up was Black Beauty." Good choice, Pam! We'll be in touch with you via email soon. :)
All you need is some plain white paper, some fun scrapbooking paper, and colored tape. Electric tape seems to hold really well.
I started by cutting my standard, American-sized 8.5" x 11" paper in halves and quarters. Either will make a nice size doll book!
You'll make three folds with your paper. First, fold it in half down the middle; then, fold again the same direction so you get a long, skinny strip.
Then, open out the second fold, and fold your paper the other way.
Now, open out this fold, and cut carefully from the folded edge to the center of the paper. (The loose ends are at the top of the picture; the folded side is at the bottom.)
Open the whole booklet up, and refold it along the third fold.
Gently push one end into the other -- you should have three pages form on one side, and a fourth page left on the other side.
Fold the remaining page to one side of the booklet.
Then, cut pieces of fun colored paper and glue them on to make 'covers'. If you want your finished book to be made of more than one booklet, make sure you glue your 'front' and 'back covers to separate booklets.
Line up your booklets, and run a strip of colored tape down the spine. Fold it over both edges, and press it down firmly to make sure it sticks!
Give your book a title, and you're all done -- congratulations!
These are really fun to make up in a variety of sizes.
Thanks to everyone who entered! Our giveaway is now closed, and the books will be on their way to the winner soon!
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Melinda
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My favorite book growing up (and still is for the most part) is the Anne of Green Gables series! I really loved Anne, and I could relate to her :)
I loved the Nancy Drew series a lot, but if I’m honest the book I remember the best is One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss. I still have it memorized 50 years later.
My favorite book growing up was, The Mouse Book by Helen Piers.
It is a story of a mouse looking for a house he could fit and live in. i loved this book but Raggedy Ann and Andy was a very close 2nd.
I was a very lonely child and one day a mouse wandered into my room and i would feed it at night. lol. i think i was like 3. and i would climb to get the crackers from the very top shelf and sit and share my crackers. ond day i asked my mom if i could have a pet. she said “NO” and i was like.. “oh damn”. she looked at my face, and asked me why i would ask such a question. i told her because i have a pet mousey that has been keeping me company. she thought it was an imaginary friend. i explained… , " nooooo mommy mousey is real, wanna see him?" she said, “sure Andrea, sure”. so i called my little friend out and my mother bout had a heart attack. she grabbed me and screamed like an axe murderer was chasing her. hahahahaha. i said, “dont worry mommy, this is mousey, he only comes out at night and he likes crackers, watch” then i showed her how i would climb to the top shelf to get the crackers and give him some. but my mother screamed so loud, she gave him a heart attack instead. he just sat there and would not move. she put can over him and said she was taking him outside and that he was sleeping.. i was hysterical. i begged her not too because he would be lonely and have no one to talk to. she said i could visit him in our hallway where the main building garbage shoot was. well yeah, he was dead for sure the next day. about 2 days later my mom bought me this book and read it to me every night. when i learned to read at age 4 or 5, i remember telling her…, “see mommy, the mouse is looking for a house, he looks like mousey”. and i started crying because i missed him. i told her that he was my only friend i could talk and play with and i missed him. he never bit me and to me he was cool.
So cute i made some but i have to buy scrapbooking paper
So cute i made some but i have to buy scrapbooking paper