Make an easy sketchbook with scraps

Materials

  • A few pieces of paper (can just be copy paper)
  • Thick paper, cardstock or just an empty cereal/pizza box
  • Ribbon, rope or thread
  • Knife and cutting mat or a pair of scissors
  • Punch or corkscrew
  • Ruler

Instructions

  • Fold your papers in half
  • Slide them into a bundle
  • Measure the papers and add half an inch or a centimeter or 2 to the measurements
  • Draw these measurements on the empty pizza box
  • Cut the shape and fold it in half so it becomes a cover
  • Punch 3 holes in the paper bundle and do the same with the cover, so they line up
  • Get a thread or ribbon and sew the pieces together.
  • First go from the outside through the middle hole
  • Go to the left hole from the inside out
  • Pull the ribbon tight so it will hold the book together, but not to tight to tear the papers
  • Go from the hole on the opposite side back from the outside in
  • Go back through the middle hole from the inside out
  • Make sure one end is on one side of the spine and the other on the opposite side.
  • Now you can make a knot to tie the ends together across the spine.
  • Your skethbook is ready
  • If you want to add something extra feel free to do so. This is your sketchbook!