How to Make a Mini-Book with a Sheet of Paper and a Couple of Staples
Thursday, January 8th, 2009I have found that a little mini-book is important for many reasons. This little mini-book that I am going to show you how to make is great to carry in your back pocket to keep notes on, to write poetry in or to sketch in. It is also great for memory and scrap books. In the past I have used these little books as friendship books with penpals (meaning that we would send them to a penpal, they would sign it and add their address and what kind of penpals they were looking for, then they would mail it to one of their other penpals. When the book was full of penpals, it would be mailed back to the original creator full of people who have signed it). The book fits nicely in a small mailing envelope and the shipping is only the price of one stamp.
You can create these with the eight pages I am about to show you or you can add as many pages as you would like. You are only limited by the number of pages your stapler can staple through.
Step 1: Fold your Sheet of paper in half.
Step 2: Tear that piece of paper along the folded crease so you have two equal segments of paper. You may use scissors or a paper cutter if you would like a cleaner look. Tearing it gives it a more natural, unfinished look.
Step 3: Place the pages one on top of the other and fold them together leaving about an inch to an inch and a half at the end. That crease is going to be the spine of your book.
Step 4: Fold the flap at the end of the back pages so you can tear them off your finished book.
Step 5: Tear off the unusable flap. (You could make these little flaps into bookmarks if you were feeling really creative.)
Step 6: With your stapler, staple the spine of the book so the pages will stay together.
Now you have an eight page mini-book. Have fun decorating it. When you do use it, please come back to this page and tell me how you used it. I would like to know what else these little books are good for. I will be glad to share your picturesand videos on this post if you provide them.


