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Explore unique ways to repurpose books into art for a creative summer reading experience. Get inspired by book page crafts, origami flower balls, and more!
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trigger warning! the following slides contain images of dismantled and repurposed books which may disturb some viewers… take a moment to breathe deeply and remember the great book cycle of life… a new book is bought and then is read/loved to death the book gets recycled to become other new books…rinse and repeat forever… occasionally though, the book becomes book art in a library (or in a librarian’s CLA presentation)…
rainbows and color wheels Reading By Design | Summer 2017
paper chains Reading By Design | Summer 2017
book page letters Reading By Design | Summer 2017
large cardboard letters Reading By Design | Summer 2017
piñata letters “it’s so fluffy i’m gonna die!” -agnes, despicable me
piñata letters take 2in squares of tissue and twist them around the eraser of a pencil then put some glue on them and stick them to the cardboard very close together... cut out letters from cardboard (i just eyeballed it but you can get as precise as you want..) Reading By Design | Summer 2017
triangle or pennant bunting Reading By Design | Summer 2017
ransom letters & bookpage backdrops Reading By Design | Summer 2017
origami flower balls make origami petals (so many petals!) and then glue them together to make a flower (so many flowers!)but actually, each flower has 5 petals and you need 12 flowers…so… Reading By Design | Summer 2017
origami flower balls attach them together to make 2 halves and put the string in one of them. I used glue on the small ones and staples on the large one. the large one was actually easier to work with…
garlands Reading By Design | Summer 2017
Warhol-esque artwork Reading By Design | Summer 2017
rasterbator.net for posters start with a picture of an adorable kitty! go to rasterbator.net and follow the instructions to upload the image... Reading By Design | Summer 2017
rasterbator.net for posters the result is a pixelated image that is printed on multiple sheets of paper like a puzzle you can tell it how big you want the final poster to be... Reading By Design | Summer 2017
apps for memes/words on pictures word swag Reading By Design | Summer 2017
title fx Reading By Design | Summer 2017
prisma app Reading By Design | Summer 2017
Contact: elyse barrere LAPL, ebarrere@lapl.orgpinterest.com/sadiegrrrl The California Summer Reading Program is a project of the California Library Association, supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Reading By Design | Summer 2017