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ow to Make a Creative Art Book with Kids

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Jennifer Schoch shares instructions for making your own art books.

Instructions:

"I do this when we have 'company' for the day (When I 'babysit' a cousin or friend). I try to keep the kids busy, I have 2 of my own under 5.

We paint, draw/color, stamp... I make sure they use regular sized sheets of paper. Then, I have a roll of brown paper and I cut it to form a cover for a 'book'. They decorate the outside cover then we add the 'ART WORK' inside by punching holes and tying with ribbon, yarn, twine, or what ever you have.

On the last one we did, I wrote on the back, like a Hallmark card, 'Schoch's Art Day Camp Aug. 2002'. That makes a nice keepsake and the parents see what the child did that day. They loved it!

One of the pages I usually do is prints of hands or feet. I did one once with a topic of cats and used clip art/stickers of cats, colored cats, and also made a cat from a handprint! It was cool and we left a page to add a photo of the child's cat!"

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