How To Make A Paper Bag Book Cover

It is important to protect and preserve your belongings, and your books are certainly included in that group.  One way to do this is through a book cover, and it is something that you can easily do.  If you're wondering how to make a paper bag book cover, look no further.  The following paragraphs will let you know exactly how to do it.

The first step is to gather all your materials and tools together.  You will need the book you wish to cover, a brown paper bag, a pair of scissors, a ruler, some transparent tape, stickers, markers, and a few colored pencils.  Start by placing the book open on top of the folder paper bag, with the folded bottom of the bag on the ground.  Take your ruler, and measure one and a half inches from each of the sides of the book, and one inch from the top and bottom.  Make a mark at each location with your colored pencil.  Remove the book, and use the ruler and colored pencil to draw a box connecting these four points to create a rectangle that could encompass the book.  This rectangle will be the guide for your scissors.  Carefully cut the rectangle out.

At this point, you should see that learning how to make a paper bag book cover is a fairly simple process.  From here on out it is simply a matter of a few more cuts with the scissor, some folds, some tape, and decorating the final project.  Lay the piece of paper bag down on a flat surface.  The floor works well, since you'll have plenty of room, but a good table will work fine.  Lay the book out on the paper, and draw two marks from the edge of the book's spine to the end of the bottom and top edge of the paper.  Use your scissors to cut a small tab here, which you will fold up and place underneath the edge of the book.  This little step in how to make a paper bag book cover is often overlooked, but it prevents the cover from tearing when the book is being opened and closed over time.

After that, lift the pages of the book up so that the right side cover is the only thing touching the paper bag.  Then, fold the sides, bottom and top around the book edge to create a pocket.  At this point, no edges of the right side should be showing.  Secure with tape.  Then it's just a matter of repeating it on the left side as well.

After that, allow your imagination to take hold and decorate to your heart's content.  Remember, of course to put the title and author of the book somewhere on the paper bag cover.  After all, knowing which book you just protected would be a very good thing.