DIY No Tape Textbook Cover

Only a few more days left to go before school begins. Everyone knows that when you go to school you’ll need textbooks at some point. Most kids will get them when they go to middle school and then have to have them until they graduate University! Some textbooks have quite interesting covers, but some are boring or old looking and need some brightening up. I never covered my textbooks, but now thinking about it, it’s a good idea to keep them clean and protected as well as to be able to tell them apart from others.

This week Nicole is taking charge of the blog tutorial and she is going show you how to make a textbook cover with just scissors and a brown paper bag and of course any supplies you may want to decorate it with, so here she goes!

Step 1:

Cut apart the brown paper bag. You basically want to cut down the seam of the bag, and cut off the bottom of the bag so it’s spread apart, like one sheet of brown paper.

Step 2:

Centre the book on the paper and then fold the paper snugly around the front so that the edge is a couple inches from the binding. 

Do the same to the back cover and then trim it.

Step 3:

Fold up the bottom of the paper about an inch and a half. 

Place the text book on the paper, lining up the bottom, to measure the height and then fold the top down. Trim to be about an inch and a half ,if necessary.

Step 4:

Slide the cover on the book so that the book cover is inside the flaps of the paper cover.

Step 5:

Decorate.
There are many different ways you could decorate your book. You can draw or doodle with pens and pencils. You could use stickers, stamps, cut and paste or whatever else you can think of. Use your imagination and have fun!