Here is the cupboard book we used to store our special things. You can open its doors and stash away special places, people and things. The good thing about this paper cupboard is that it will take anything from the smallest to the largest thing. It will even accommodate imagined and remembered things. I put … Continue reading Cupboard Book
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Instructions for a Friend
It is really, really hard to write good instructions. Often drawings are required as well as words. Sometimes drawings alone do the job. One is, must be, more acutely aware of one’s audience than almost any other kind of writing. Very often the subject of the instruction is so familiar to us that we forget … Continue reading Instructions for a Friend
Pop-up!
By popular demand, here’s another making writing project courtesy of the inventive and imaginative Paul Johnson. This one is inspired by his book, Pop-up Paper Engineering.It is a lovely project that can inspire nursery children and provide older children to create and write about a character. I have chosen Red Riding Hood for this demonstration, but … Continue reading Pop-up!
A box for little books
Here is how to make a box to hold your small folded origami books. Take a piece of A4 paper. Fold in half from top to bottom in portrait position. Keep the folded edge at the bottom.Fold the top half down to fold in half again.Fold the top corners down to meet the bottom edge … Continue reading A box for little books
A little folded book
We thought you might like to make a little box of folded books. You could give them as a gift, or you could store up a library full of poems or stories or memories. Here is how to make an origami or slit book: Take a rectangle of paper – A4 will do. A3 is … Continue reading A little folded book
A house book 1
Here is how to make a simple house book. You could use it as a thank you card or a collection of memories from the past year in the house, or as a special letter for someone you haven’t seen for a while. Start with a piece of A4 paper -you can of course use … Continue reading A house book 1
The Travelling Bookbinder
We’d like to introduce you to The Travelling Bookbinder. Rachel Hazell is an imaginative and generous bookbinder, teacher and lover of papery, wordy things. Her book, Bound, is a beautiful collection of book-making projects. They are all easily manageable. Each book form suggests different ideas for writing and art work. The Travelling Bookbinder has a regular … Continue reading The Travelling Bookbinder
A garland
In December we like to make wordy gifts and decorations. Today we have a garland for you which is a decoration and could be a gift as well. You can use writing that you have done before – golden moments, memories, thankyous. You could write new words and phrases, especially for this. The book form is … Continue reading A garland
Zigzag Memories
Here’s another way of presenting your words, of making your words into a present. It is what I am going to call the collage concertina. If you can think of a better name, let me know! This is a book that you can make as long or as short as you like. You can keep … Continue reading Zigzag Memories
32 pages
I think it was Shirley Hughes who first spoke to me about the number of pages in a picture book. The sum total is usually 32 and that includes the end papers, the title page, everything. Lois Ehlert shows how she maps out her picture books so that she knows where the pictures will go and … Continue reading 32 pages
Writing Box 