Despite the fact that a variety of toys and children's books are currently being sold in stores, each mother wants to make a beautiful present for her baby. Therefore, sites devoted to needlework and creativity are so popular. On them you can find patterns of soft toys, a photo about sewing for dolls or the video “hand made baby book”. With your own hands, using these instructions you can create a variety of crafts. How to make a book for children?
Here are some tips for those who first decided to make a book themselves.
- First of all, you need to think over the plot and determine the number of pages, find the necessary pictures and photos.
- The simplest little book is obtained from a painted strip of paper folded into an accordion. For a clamshell book with a cover, the creation process will be longer.
- Pages for a book can be made from Whatman paper, cardboard for children's art, pastel paper or for drawing, corrugated cardboard.
- Drawings and photographs are best glued with double-sided tape: from the glue, the paper may soften and begin to tuberize after drying. If you still work with glue, then it is necessary to wipe the bonding places from its residues and place the picture under the press.
- Voluminous parts for a children's book should not be very small and poorly fixed so that the child does not accidentally tear off and eat the part that he likes.
- Safe, beautiful and informative - this is what a children's book should be. With your own hands, making a similar book for a child is doubly nice.
Clamshell book
To make a clamshell book you will need:
- paper for pages;
- decorative paper for cover;
- Double-sided tape;
- universal glue;
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- ruler;
- pencil;
- lace or thin braid, the length of which is equal to four times the width of the book with the cover.
Description of work
- First you need to cut two rectangles from cardboard with sides equal to the width and length of the book.
- Now, from decorative paper for the cover, we cut out two rectangles with sides 2 cm larger than the length and width of the book.
- From decorative paper of a different color, we cut a strip to fix the tape 2 cm long less than the width of the book, and wider than the width of the tape by one and a half centimeters.
- Next, we make the pages. To do this, cut out another rectangle, but from paper for pages. The width of the rectangle will be equal to the height of the page, and the length is the width of the page times the number of pages in the book plus 2 pages. Add the resulting rectangle with an accordion.
- When calculating, you need to remember that on the back of the accordion you also need to mark the text and drawings. Otherwise, on the other hand, white sheets will remain, and you will get an unfinished baby book. With your own hands, you need to go through the folds several times so that the book looks neat.
- We paste cardboard covers for the cover using double-sided tape , wrapping them with cut rectangles from decorative paper.
- Glue the first sheet of accordion to the first cover, and the last sheet to the second.
- We decorate the book with decorative braid. First, glue the tape on the book with universal glue. After the glue has dried, glue a strip on top to secure the braid.
Now you can start writing text, drawing illustrations, gluing pictures and photos on the selected plot. We have got a beautiful baby book. With your own hands you can not only make a book out of paper, but also sew it out of fabric, decorating it with decorative elements: lace, appliqués, buttons, embroidery.
It will be interesting to sew a thematic book with removable applications that can be moved inside the book. Such removable parts can also be counting material, which is very useful for the development of fine motor skills of the child. Pages are best made from different material and texture drawings. Thus, the child learns to distinguish colors, to determine a smooth or rough surface, to develop his tactile sensations - and all this gives one little book. With their own hands, a small child will be able to touch all the details, flip through the pages. If the book is torn, mom can always sew it up, and wash it in case of contamination.