You can make a colorful book for kids yourself.
To do this, you will need the following improvised materials:
- photo;
- paper;
- cardboard;
- textile.
With the help of such homemade products, you can develop your children.
There are 3 types of homemade books:
- paper version;
- photobooks;
- textile educational books.
Homemade book made of cardboard or paper
In the photo of a children's book intended for a baby who is not yet a year old, you can see large subject pictures. It is best to combine images by topic.
For a one-year-old baby, you can make various books. Each of them can be devoted to one of the topics: "Pets", "Food", "Toys".
Knowing how to make a children's book with your own hands, you will quickly make it. The little one will definitely be interested in an informative story about what his favorite bear does. A series of pictures shows the baby how the bear plays with a ball, eats delicious honey, walks in the forest, sleeps on the bed.
Where to get themed pictures?
The necessary images can be found in various sources:
Pictures from coloring books will also be able to interest a small child. The baby is attracted to colored images and uncolored ones.
Large pictures are on the pages of magazines. Suitable images can be found on the Internet. They are easy to print on a printer. If you use photo paper, you will get high-quality photos.
Pictures from wall calendars are also suitable for handmade homemade products. At the end of the year, you can ask a friend for a calendar.
Arm yourself with pencils and paints. Draw yourself! Your baby will appreciate every creation.
Take pictures of various objects or phenomena yourself to create a unique book.
Having shown your creativity, you will soon be able to create a homemade library.
Note!
Making a kind of encyclopedia of the world for the development of the baby
Option 1. Homemade book from a photo album
You need to purchase a 10X15 photo album with 36 pages, this is the best option. Choose small dimensions, do not take bulky photo albums. Take the cardboard and cut out strips of white cardboard with dimensions 10x15.
It remains only to paste the pictures on the cards and insert them into the album. If the cards are laminated, they will last longer.
Subject images with inscriptions in a photo album are not just a book for kindergarten.
If its design is complicated, then it is suitable for older children. In such a book, you can include children's children, riddles and fairy tales.
Option 2. Homemade book in a file folder
For the product you will need to purchase a file folder, cardboard with A4 size. Pictures are pasted on white or colored sheets. Ready cards are inserted into the folder.
Note!
The sheet can contain one image and a short story about the picture. Another design option - under the picture is a signature.
Option 3. Homemade book from drawing sheets
For a book, you need to take 8 or 10 sheets, they are folded in half, and then sewn together. You can also connect the sheets in another way - make holes with a hole punch, thread a satin ribbon and tie it.
Thematic pictures are pasted into the finished book. Such a product has the only drawback - insufficient strength.
Option 4. Book in the form of an album
Homemade can be made from a sketchbook. The thematic picture must be glued to the cover. In the book, you can enter the statements of the baby, his first stories or children's songs.
Children's educational photo books
A book for a child with photographs will help the baby move from everyday conversations with parents to the perception of literary works. Here the child already needs coherent speech. Simply naming the subject is no longer enough.
You can paste a photo of yourself and your child. The first page serves as a cover, the title and the name of the author are written on it. An image is also glued here, from which it is easy to guess what topic the book is devoted to.
Note!
The text is written in the book, it is placed in different ways. Photos can be pasted on top or on the left side of the spread, and information can be placed below the photo or on the right side.
Soft fabric children's book
The master class "How to make a children's book" will help you create a real masterpiece. Elements that attract the child's attention can be used here: squeakers, bells, applications, lace-up or Velcro fasteners.
Soft books help develop tactile sensations. They are made from materials of various textures: fleece, wool or velvet.
Additionally, a variety of fillers can be used. The most popular options include small pebbles, beads, peas or seeds.
Photo children's book do-it-yourself
If you want to entertain yourself and your child, there is a great activity! A do-it-yourself baby book can be made for a child of any age, even one over 20.
After all, the meaning of this book depends on the material and content. The tips are also suitable for those who were asked to make a book with their own hands as homework.
Materials for a homemade book can be completely different. Only your imagination or financial component can limit you. The simplest options, a book made of paper and fabric. At first, we are faced with the main task, to come up with a plot and composition.
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Fabric baby book
Such a book is made even for the smallest, because it develops a small motility hands But if you want to make a book with riddles and tasks, then it is better if your baby is already five years old. Pages can be connected to each other in two ways:
- Sew the spine with thread.
- Make small holes in the leaves and tie them with a string or rings.
Thanks to this method, you can add new pages. Fabrics best suited for such a book: colored fleece and felt. Such fabric can be purchased at an art store.
For children under 3 years old
It is for children of this age that it is better to make a book out of fabrics and not paper. After all, it is difficult for a child to understand and realize that tearing a book is bad. In addition, the use of materials of different textures develops tactile Feel. Try not to make small parts that are easy to tear off and put in your mouth.
Better do it appliqués from different fabrics that are easy to sew on tightly, for example, plastic bags or oilcloth.
If you are thinking of an idea appliqués, there are several simple options: cups, sun, flowers, houses, cars.
You can do something fun by beating everyday activities. There is another interesting idea: sew large figures from fabric and attach Velcro to them so that you can tear them off and stick them into a book. Such things can be purchased at a sewing store.
For children over 3 years old
In this age category, the scope of your opportunities increases significantly. You can even try to make this fake with your child if the child is already in the third grade.
The filling for the book can be glued with safe glue. Materials can be used different, for example:
- Buttons.
- Tapes.
- Laces.
- Threads.
Next, you can create mobile picture, with the help of such a thing you can teach your child the rules of the road, teach you how to tie shoelaces, and correctly arrange objects.
If you want to teach this to a child, do alphabet, sun and planets, as well as traffic lights and road signs.
To do the lacing task, you will need:
- Regular lace.
- A ring that is slightly larger than a lace.
- Strip of fabric.
- Thread, needle, scissors.
Beginning of work.
Cut the fabric into pieces 2–2.5 cm long, process the edges. Then thread one piece into one ring, fold it in half and sew it to the book. You need to sew so that two columns come out of all the segments.
If you can insert eyelets, then you can not suffer so much. Plus, you can add a zipper, which will be interesting to unzip and fasten, as well as pockets in which they will be hidden surprises.
Next, start creating a machine that will move along the lace. As for the rest of the items, it will be enough to make two holes and thread a ribbon through them, and sew the ends to the book.
For little girls, a picture with dolls is more suitable, on which you can stick outfits, hairstyles, jewelry.
Here we have disassembled a few ways making a book with your own hands. Do not be lazy and do it, you will please your child, and he can also boast of this in kindergarten or at school in his class.
DIY paper baby book
Perfect for a child over 3 years old paper book. Such a book can be made in different ways, we will analyze several options.
book from leaves and string.
We take the required amount of paper and punch a stack with a hole punch. Then we take out a beautiful lace or ribbon, and then thread it through the holes. Then we make a beautiful bow. This is one of the lightest paper book options. This option has one significant drawback, this paper book is very difficult to flip through.
Paper transformation.
For this job you will need:
- Multi-colored and square leaves.
- Glue.
- 12 minutes.
Step-by-step creation of a fake:
Conclusion
So we sorted out simple and easy ways to create a children's book. The main differences and features of such fakes depend on the age of the child.
Welcome to my blog again! You have fresh ideas from pleasant leisure time with your child. Let's talk today about how to make a book for children with your own hands! Full of enthusiasm and ideas? Share them in the comments, and I will talk about my discoveries and crafts.
I'll start with books for babies, namely, how to make a soft educational book for your baby.
For what, from what and how now I will tell. Even the smallest baby, a baby from 3-4 months old, will be interested in playing with such a book. Create with whatever is at hand: felt, paper, fabric, cardboard. What are they needed for:
- The soft baby book can be washed or new pages added at any time.
- With its help, the natural development of the crumbs takes place: sensory - the baby gets acquainted with the forms, learns to recognize them; fine motor skills improve - it contributes to the faster development of speech, improves coordination of fingers.
- The baby in a playful way can learn to count, learn about the world and nature.
I can't sew, what should I do?
You will not need special sewing skills and you can even do without a typewriter:
- Use felt, it doesn't require edging.
- Use simple shapes - geometric shapes, a daisy, a rainbow, a fish, a lake, all this does not require sewing or drawing skills.
- There is no machine - you can just sew with a needle, the main thing is to fix it well so that the baby does not swallow
- Use purchased applications, ribbons, buttons, all this is now easy to find in a wide variety of forms.
- Use simple scripts. To begin with, it is not necessary to set the task of sewing a doll and dressing it up in different outfits. It is enough to sew on ribbons of different colors and study colors, shapes, etc.
Of course, if you sew for sale, and the demand for such books is very high, then you need some experience, which, in principle, is gained after sewing 3-5 books.
Get down to business
For manufacturing you will need:
- the main fabric for the pages of the book;
- felt fabric (you can buy separately or purchase a ready-made set in the store);
- scissors;
- lightning;
- tapes;
- Velcro;
- laces;
- pieces of filler, it can be a synthetic winterizer / holofiber or small shreds to fill the pages;
- buttons / beads / beads (for those children who have already stopped tasting everything);
- cardboard (for making templates);
- lightning;
- buttons.
Do you want to know how beautiful, with a twist to make a book? For this you need a little. Use satin ribbons, buttons, beautiful beads and multi-colored beads, buttons.
In addition, you will need to have your own time to make. Do not sew in front of the baby. He can take a needle or scissors in his hands, because the baby is interested in everything. The best time for creativity is pregnancy, give a book for birth.
First, calculate the length of the material that you will need. Then, from cardboard or paper, make blank templates for the main pages if they involve a complex scenario. Cut out the required number of squares. Do not forget that 2 blanks will go to one page. If your book will have 5 pages, then you will need 10 squares of fabric.
Sew 2 blanks from 3 sides, put a filler inside (synthetic winterizer, for example). This is necessary so that the pages do not wrinkle. Then sew the remaining 4 side. The first page is ready. Use a rougher material for the cover, or use a little more filler. Everything that will happen next depends on your imagination, perseverance and, of course, the age of the baby.
Mom's first experience
How to make applications
Transfer the pattern you like to paper, cut it out, then outline it on the fabric, do not forget to leave a small indent (allowance) for internal seams. Remember to sew 3 sides inside out. Then you need to turn the product inside out and carefully sew on the front side. This also applies to the pages of the book. To make it look nice and neat.
Prepare applications in advance that you will use to describe the plot in the picture.
When creating a homemade book for blind children, try to use different materials: soft and dense, rustling. After all, through tactile perception, a visually impaired baby learns to know the world.
We develop fine motor skills
We combine the pleasant - the game, with the useful - we develop small fingers. What will the child be interested in? After all, it will be great if the baby learns to lace up shoes, tie shoelaces, fasten and unfasten buttons on their own.
To do this, turn on the pages where you can weave the lace. For example, glue the applique of the boot, make small holes, process them, stitching them well along the edges. First, thread the lace with the baby, then he will do it himself. After 2 years, the baby can master this skill on their own. After 3-3.5 learn to tie a knot, knit a bow.
Consider button pockets. For example, a leaf on a button, under which a small caterpillar will hide.
Sew a few multi-colored snakes of a small size firmly. The kid will have fun opening and closing them again and again.
Learning forms
Thanks to a small book, a child will learn to distinguish between large objects and small ones. On the page, make 2 baskets, one for small items (circles/squares/triangles), the other for large ones.
You can make simple and complex applications from small and larger geometric shapes. Snowman: place the largest circle at the base, glue a smaller one on top of it. We build a Christmas tree according to the same type. From rectangles, squares, you can build a large / small house with windows, and use the triangle as a roof.
We develop thinking
Put together simple puzzles: an image of a car, the sun, animals, a ship. Learn vegetables and fruits. To do this, you can use the same baskets. We put fruits in one, vegetables in the other.
Study natural phenomena. Velcro leaves can be attached to the tree, when they fall - autumn comes. Create snow with your own hands, fill the space with snowflakes, build a snowman. When the sun peeps out, it is day, and when it hides, it is night. Everything is simple and easy.
Study animals. For example, domestic animals live near the house, and wild ones live in the forest. Soon the baby will figure it out on his own and without errors will begin to perform this simple task.
Create a children's book, a fairy tale with your own hands, using ready-made Velcro hero templates.
Exploring colors
Paper or cardboard book
Paper books are suitable for older children, I started making such books for my son from the age of 10 months, but everything is individual here.
Why do we need a paper book, if now there is a huge selection of books in stores, many will ask. First, not all books contain adequate pictures. In modern books, one can find disproportionate people, inadequate images, distorted fairy tales that do not teach at all as one would like.
We have a big beautiful book "Swan Geese", the pictures in it are beautiful, good, kind faces, human, but the content of the tale is distorted. The girl helped the apple tree not out of the kindness of her heart, but because the apple tree would hide her. We all remember the fairy tale, how the girl ran looking for her brother, met an apple tree, which groaned under the weight of apples and helped her, took pity, although she was in a hurry. And on the way back, the apple tree hid them from the swans. And the stove not only hid it, but even then treated it to a pie. And in our new book, what is brought up? This is a photo of the described scene from our book: 
- adequate pictures, not oversaturated with colors, distorted faces
- the scenario of a fairy tale, what it teaches: goodness without self-interest, or do me a favor, and I will help you for it ...
Of course, it is very difficult to look for tricks in fairy tales and it is not always possible to see everything in the store, many books that we bought or gave to us were burned at the stake))
Now about what you can think of
Print the book yourself, insert good pictures into it. It's not difficult, you just need to have basic skills in Word. The second option is to cut pictures from books, magazines and glue them into an album, sign them. This can be done with educational cards and therapeutic fairy tales, and just our good old fairy tales. You can even make voluminous fairy tales.
You can involve older brothers or sisters, you can glue with the baby. From the age of 1, kids love to make applications. And most importantly, after 4 years, the book will not get bored, since the child himself took part. And after 5 years, a child, already an adult, can open it himself to read, draw something, add something. This is something more than just a book, these are your joint pleasant memories, such fairy tales will be remembered much longer and will lay in a person much stronger good programs than such books as our “Geese-Swans in Modern Processing”
The point is small - desire, fantasy, time and lack of laziness.
For older children
Older children need more complex and interesting stories. You can make books about the planet earth, about space, about production, about countries, about mathematical problems.
It is easier for older children to make paper books, but soft books with tic-tac-toe games or walkers that you can take on the road will be interesting and practical. Even chess and checkers can be made from fabric, they do not take up space, they are much brighter and more original than usual ones.
Hi all.
On Tuesday, my daughter came from school with a task - to make a baby book with her own hands (a task on the outside world, they went through typography). The task for the week, that is, next Tuesday, must be handed over. At first, it took a long time to decide which work to take - the task was - small, you can come up with your own, or you can take something well-known. We decided to make a book by B. Zakhoder "The Whale and the Cat".
I’ll tell you what happened step by step, and in the middle, see a master class on covers for notebooks / books and others like them (I promised it for a long time, all my hands didn’t reach, but there is a reason). For those who have recently been with me, the book was sewn with Coptic binding (it is also a manual version of book binding), I had an MK for it somewhere in a magazine, or in the needlework community, I don’t remember already, I need to look for it.
To begin with, I created a layout in Photoshop, printed out the text and pictures in light gray font, because my daughter would not have written SUCH a volume of text completely by hand, and it would not have been even at all.
Today, when she finished writing, we started to create the book itself, not forgetting to print additional illustrations as well.
We needed iris threads, a large “gypsy” needle, an awl and scissors.
To begin with, we folded all three sheets in half, carefully ironing the folds.
After that, they took another blank sheet of paper, folded it in half, unfolded it, picked up a ruler and a pencil. They stepped back from both edges by 3 cm and every 2.5 put marks - a total of 7 marks.
After that, we sequentially put a leaflet with marks into each of the three sheets with text and pierced holes on the fold from the inside along the marks.
I inserted the needle only into the very first hole - then my daughter sewed herself, I controlled the process and suggested which hole the next needle was inserted into.
When we sewed all three “notebooks” (slang, “sheets folded together for stitching”), my daughter was very surprised and said “how is everything already ???”
Not without a second, terribly interfering "assistant"
As a result, after my request to smile, I had to take two dozen shots, of which one was more or less successful.
This is how the “block” looks like - the inside of the book after stitching.
Then I’ll show the remaining ponytails where we use it, but for now I’ll just show how the same sewn book looks from the inside.
It's inside the notebook.
And this is between the "notebooks" - there are gaps, they do not need to be put anywhere, they will not be visible later.
Since the block is stitched, let's start creating the cover. Well, and, accordingly, further will be a detailed MK .
Choose what the cover will be from. We had bumvinyl (such a special paper, you can google it), you can take thick paper, you can even take thick wallpaper, fabric - whatever your heart desires and what you have enough experience for - the easiest way to start is with ordinary thick paper (with a density of 180 g / m2 ).
We cut out 2 identical parts from cardboard, so that the cover is 1-2 mm larger than the inner block itself along the top, bottom and one of the sides (the density of the cardboard depends on your wishes, not less than 300 g / m2 exactly, if you need a straight hard cover - about 600-700 is needed, only if it is not beer cardboard - I don’t remember the numbers for it, but it comes in only one density).
The third part should be equal in height to the first two, and its width is the thickness of the innermost part plus 1-3 mm (depending on how thick the inner part is, if 5 mm, then the middle of the cover is 6 mm, if the thickness is 5 cm, then the middle of the cover and 5.5 cm will do).
We lay out the cardboard on the “fabric” (I remind you that I have bumvinyl, if you have a different material for the cover, just keep this in mind), cut off the excess part of the “fabric” so that there is 1-2 cm on each side for a hem. And do not forget to make 1-3 mm between the middle cardboard and the side ones.
First, we roughly lay out the cardboard so that the top and bottom have the same distance (a couple of mm will not play a role). We outline this for ourselves with dots, remove the cardboard and draw the GREEN line using a ruler. It is important that the green line is even, parallel to the top and bottom, otherwise everything will be skewed.
It is better to immediately glue the middle cardboard along this red line (if it is narrow, then by eye, if it is wide, we find its middle and combine the top and bottom points with the red line).
Next will be the most difficult thing, what you can get confused about, so I immediately recommend - put cardboard boxes - immediately mark them and on the very “fabric” on which they lay, put the corresponding numbers / letters / signs. Because if somewhere they made a mistake of at least 1 mm and they are not exactly the same, then confusing them in places when gluing is almost like death. Therefore, I wrote the number 1 on the cardboard, removed this cardboard, under it on the “fabric” I wrote the number 1, I did the same with the second cardboard.
Then we carefully combine the cardboard (first one, then repeat everything for the other) and the already existing green line. We retreat from the middle cardboard 1-2 mm and circle the side cardboard on two sides - in the picture it is BLUE lines .
We remove the cardboard again. And mark the cut lines. So that you don’t get confused and don’t turn the mouse back and forth, I duplicate the picture that was above.
PINK lines
along the YELLOW lines cut out the corners, this is superfluous, we don’t need them (relative to the blue lines, no more than 45 degrees, the angle should be, optimally about 30, but I do it by eye).
After cutting out the corners, we sequentially glue the side cardboards, focusing on the green and blue lines (in the photo below they are black, too lazy to switch colors).
By the way, the choice of glue completely depends on what you use as a “fabric” - it is best to glue leather and paper of any kind on PVA (only take a construction one - it dries thicker and faster), and the same fabric, especially dense - on glue the moment is transparent (for example, silicone). Just don’t take any second glue - just ruin everything - you won’t even have time to apply it, but you also need to spread it evenly.
My daughter actively participated in all stages of making the book, therefore, on the same gluing of the middle cardboard, the jamb at the bottom is very visible, but oh well, but almost herself)))
Actually, the cardboard boxes themselves are glued first, then they are pasted over with a “fabric” by bending it (if it is any kind of paper, first you press and iron it without glue, it’s easier to glue it).
Moreover, the long sides are glued first - there can be the most jambs with them, and only then we try to hide these jambs by gluing the short sides.
Actually, MK can safely end here - it remains to put the cover under the press and leave to dry.
Well, my daughter and I, while our cover was resting under pressure, glued the inner block. This is done for several purposes:
- so the block becomes stronger, it will not be possible to tear out the pages by accident,
- “notebooks” stop moving up and down relative to each other (you can sew tighter, but then it turns out to be overstretched and not beautiful after gluing)
- Holes between "notebooks" are filled.
It is important to glue the block with the same glue that was used to glue the cover, so this time we have Moment Crystal glue.
Since we have a thin block, I simply pressed the ponytails to the block, when the block is thick (at least 1 cm or more) - be sure to first coat with glue, let it dry a little, coat it again a little, put gauze / bandage on top and coat with glue again - so block becomes one.
In this case, the main thing is not to overdo it - otherwise the glue may leak inside and partially glue the pages.
This is what the block looks like from the inside after sizing (I did not open it wide, yet it should dry for much longer than 15 minutes).
This is between the "notebooks" - where there was emptiness - now glue.
Well, inside the notebooks I’ll show you closer how my daughter sewed it.
We waited until the casing dries up, and proceeded to the final “finishing”.
This is what the book looks like with the inside block inside the cover.
Something is missing, my daughter told me. That's right - there is not enough flyleaf. And so we took two more thick sheets of paper, folded them in half and put them on the cover.
It is very important that the flyleaf recedes from the edge of the cover, that is, it completely coincides with that side of the side cardboard, which is closer to the middle. Glue one side of each endpaper to the cover.
That is, so that later the flyleaf opens, but one side hides all the fear and horror of the cover. 
First, we outline the line beyond which the glue should not protrude. I wrote the dimensions of this space above. Since we have an A5 book size, I indented about 1.5 cm from the edge. On the other hand, the same thing.
Then we successively and very quickly apply glue to the already glued part of the block, to the middle cardboard of the cover and to the intended parts of the block (the same 1.5 cm from the edge). And we press the cover at the same time with the butt to the cover and the endpapers to the block on the sides.
Keep it like this from a minute to 5 minutes (depending on the type of glue), and then again your favorite press. Let the book dry under pressure. From half an hour to infinity - the longer - the better.
Well, my daughter and I remembered that the illustrations were left unused, so we had to urgently cut them out and stick them on a glue stick (I hope they won’t fall off tomorrow).
And here's what happened in the end:
closed book (the inscription will appear on the cover tomorrow)
First page (which is glued to the flyleaf - the flyleaf is slightly smoothed by hand)
Pages 2-3
Pages 4-5 (formed by two different “notebooks”, this is almost imperceptible in the finished book)
Pages 6-7 (sorry, the whole picture did not fit, I only had to take a helicopter)
Pages 8-9 (pictures were requested here, but there was nowhere to put them, alas)
Pages 10-11
Page 12 ("imprint" and flyleaf)
Thank you all for watching)))
There will be questions - ask, I will try to answer them as far as possible.
P.S. I’m crazy happy with my daughter, she really did it herself under my strict guidance, I expected it to be in the spirit of “bring-give-idinafih-don’t interfere. It's nice to be so wrong in children))))
P.S.S. Inappropriate comments will simply be deleted - I have neither the strength, nor the time, nor the desire to listen to the nonsense of idiots.
