Make Your Own Paper Bag Book

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Rachelle at TinkerLab, challenged bloggers to be creative with paper bags. Of course, I wanted to take a literacy angle and made a paper bag book that you can easily make, too. I found inspiration from That Artist Woman.

Paper Bag Books

paper bag books

DIY Paper Bag Book

Supplies
paper bags (lunch sack size)
stapler
paints (tempora)
paint brushes
flower pictures
pens
drawing book of ideas
paper bag books

1. Stack two paper bags, one on top of the other – each facing different directions.

paper bag books

2. Fold the two bags in half.

paper bag books

3. Staple in the middle fold. To get the stapler to reach, you’ll have to fold under some of the page.

paper bag books

4. Paint all the papes. We used tempora paints.

The next steps are totally up to you. Use your imagination to continue.

Here’s what we did for our books.

paper bag books

5. We used the Usborne book, How to Draw Fairies and Mermaids to make our books about fairiesWe went to Google images and found flowers. Then, we printed, cut, and pasted the flowers in our book.

6. JJ and I drew fairies in and around the flowers.

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7. We described what the fairies were doing. I wrote on separate paper and pasted it on the pages since the paint was tricky to write on. JJ wrote directly on the flowers in some pages.

paper bag books

8. Let the bottom of the bags become lift-the-flaps. See this flap? Closed above. Open below.

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Participating Bloggers:

Paint Cut Paste, Imagination SoupHands On: As We Grow, Child Central Station, Putti Prapancha, Irresistible Ideas for Play-Based LearningTeach Preschool, The Chocolate Muffin Tree, Nurture Store, Small Types,Make Do & FriendThe Imagination Tree, Toddler Approved, Red Ted Art, Kids in the Studio, Rainy Day Mum, Glittering Muffins, Sense of Wonder, Mom To 2 Posh Lil Divas, Come Together Kids, My Creative Family, Kitchen Counter Chronicles, A Mom With A Lesson Plan, Angelique Felix, The Golden Gleam, Clarion Wren, Living at the Whitehead’s Zoo, Let Kids Create, De tout et de rien, PlayDrMomCreativity My PassionKiwi Crate, Tinkerlab

There’s still time to join the challenge. Visit  TinkerLab or the Kiwi Crate Blog where they can add a photo or link in the comment section. One entry per person, please.

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