Making books for kids is so easy and so much fun. The books we’ve created are all about colors with fun pictures, poems, and activities.
For Christmas this year I have decided to go handmade for the majority of our children’s gifts.
One of the gifts the twins will be receiving is a set of handmade books. They are 2 years old and love the alphabet, counting, and colors. They also love to read flick through the pages of books and point to all of the things they know and ask about the things that they don’t.
Homemade books
Each of the pages I designed for the book was created on Scrapblog. I mostly used clipart on the computer to make these books, then printed each of the pages and glued them into cardboard books that I found at Oriental Trading – 7″ cardboard ‘Design Your Own Story Books’ for $9.99.
The pages and front and back covers were glued to the cardboard using Mod Podge. An extra layer of Mod Podge was brushed over the front and back covers to protect them.
Craft tip: When gluing the pages inside the book leave about 2mm from the center, otherwise when the book opens and closes the inside section may begin to peel up. Once the glue is dry, use a fine sheet of sandpaper and rub gently down the center divide of each page. This will make the print-out pages blend in with the cardboard so it looks like you’ve printed directly onto the cardboard and not glued pages down. Close the book and very gently rub the sandpaper over the ends of the pages too so that if you have cut your pages by hand (like me) you don’t see the scissor marks or uneven edges.
Blue book
Brown book
Pink book
Green book
Orange book
Red book
More homemade book ideas for kids
Are you looking for more fun homemade book ideas for kids? Take a look at these:
So great you are very talented
What fantastic ideas you have!
What a great idea and something to keep and pass down to others. I saw something similar before which had textures in it too. I meant to make one myself but unlike you, I never got around to it.Oh and thanks a lot for linking to Scrapblog. Like I really need another website to get hooked on!
Tonya! You always amaze me! You come up with the best ideas! I love the idea of making Elijah his own books when the time comes too! Not only will they mean more to the kids when they get older because their mom made them, but they can be customized to you child and his development. They look so great but seem to be so cheap simple to make. Youre such a talented and caring mommy! hehe3 erinP.S. New blog is almost done! Having trouble coming up with a new name. I have it titled From Son up to Son Down right now but dont think I like that enough to stick with it and Lovin the Baby is too plain sounding. But anyway will let you know when its fully functional!
wow! this is SOOO cool. I am so stealing this idea!!! Thanks
FABULOUS.
what a great beautiful idea!! You could have a whole line of these color book!!
how do you print out your scrapblog pages? I can’t figure it out. Feel free to email off line mbooth underscore 98 at yahoo dot com
THAT IS AWESOME.I love it!
Wow, this is amazing! I’ll be linking to this.