How to Make a Fold Up Homemade Picture Book

Store your favorite photographs in a homemade picture book.

Make your own picture book using your favorite color card stock and prints. Adults and kids can make this inexpensive homemade craft together, without having to spend money on a store-bought picture book. Keep the photo book for yourself, or give it to a friend or loved one as a gift. Personalize your album by writing a description of each photograph or add your own artwork. Make as many picture books as you want and share with others.

Things You'll Need

• 3 pieces 8 1/2-inch-square card stock
• 30-inch ribbon
• Glue

Instructions

1. Fold an 8 1/2-inch-square piece of card stock in half horizontally. Open it up and fold it vertically. Open the card stock up so it is a square once again, and you should have four sections, made by the creases.

2. Turn the card stock over so the creases face down, causing the paper to rise a bit from the folds. Grab one corner and fold the card stock in half diagonally, so one corner is even with the opposite corner.

3. Repeat Steps 1 and 2 with the two other large square pieces of card stock.

4. Lay the three pieces of card stock in front of you horizontally on a flat surface. Each piece should be on an angle, resembling a diamond, with one corner facing up and the bottom corner facing down.

5. Overlap the left and right pieces over the center piece, so the far-right square on the left piece covers the left square on the center piece, and the left square on the right piece covers the right square on the center piece.

6. Glue the pieces of card stock together where the sides overlap.

7. Glue pictures onto each square of the card stock. Attach pictures to the front and back of the card stock to maximize your space. Write captions or a description of each photograph on the side or underneath each image.

8. Fold your book up and close it by tying a ribbon around it.

References

• Exploring Womanhood: Folding Book / Accordian Album