A project for the weekend - Book Christmas Tree

 

I love to make things at Christmas time and I find this relaxing and rewarding at the same time.

We have a lot of old books that we have collected as we cannot bear to throw them away. Using them to make decorations is a great way to breathe life into them and safe the planet at the same time, by not purchasing those plastic decorations, that most shops sell across the planet at this time of the year.

Supplies

A  book – you can use one you already own or pick up an old holiday themed book at a thrift store!

A knife
Dry adhesive
Optional supplies: glitter, glue, ribbon, fairy lights etc.

Instructions

1. Find an old book.

2. Carefully remove the cover.

3.Count out 30 pages of your book. This is where page numbers come in handy.

4.  Use a knife to slice down the spine where you’ve partitioned off your thirty pages. 

5.  Repeat steps three and four. 

6. Now take one section of the book and lie it on the table so that the spine is facing left.
Take the top right corner and fold it down so that the edge of the corner is touching the spine.

7. Now take the part of the page where the folded edge meets the straight edge. Fold it over so that the part of the page that it already folded from the last step will be flush with the spine. It’s just like folding a paper airplane.

8. Either fold the overhanging part of the page up, or cut it off. I prefer to cut mine. It will sit well either way.

9. Continue to do this until all of the pages are folded.

10 Take the other set of thirty pages and flip it so that the spine is on the right. Repeat steps six through eight.

11. Lay the folded pages down and apply dry adhesive liberally to the front and last page

12. Press the two edges of each set together, lining up the edges. Open the pages and curl around until you can do the same both sides.

13.Sit it up and let dry. Once it is dry you can either leave it as it is or adorn it with ribbon, glitter and anything else that takes your fancy....

bon dimanche ♥♥ Leeann x