How to Make Your Own Cookbook
Whether someone is just beginning to cook and collect recipes or has accumulated many through the years, making a cookbook to keep them in makes a lovely gift. This craft project is quick, easy and fun; the simplicity of this project is part of its charm. Your friends or family will love being able to have a great place to keep all of the recipes that they've accumulated in an organized, easy-to-find place.
Things You'll Need
- 3-ring binder
- Top-loading plastic protector sheets
- 8 ½--by-11-inch colored paper
- Ruled loose notebook paper (1 small packet)
- 8 tabbed dividers
- Pen
- Magazine pictures
- Scissors
- Glue
- Glue stick
Instructions
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Decide upon the categories that you want to include in the cookbook. Common categories include Appetizers, Bread, Family Recipes, Desserts, Meat, Poultry, Seafood and Vegetables. You can add categories for national dishes or anything else the recipient might find handy.
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Print these category labels clearly on the cardstock that comes with the tabbed dividers and insert them into the tabs.
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Look through magazines for items that represent these food categories. Cut out the photographs you choose and glue them onto the front of the appropriate tabbed dividers.
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Insert two sheets of colored paper into each of the 100 plastic protector sheets. Each section can have its own color of paper, or you can use one color of paper for all of the sheets.
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Put the tabbed dividers into the 3-ring binder in alphabetical order.
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Place 20 of the plastic protector sheets (with the colored paper inserted into them) behind each label.
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Put the extra plastic protector sheets and the small packet of lined looseleaf paper in the back of the cookbook.
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Wrap the present along with the glue stick so that its new owner can glue their recipes to the sheets of paper in the cookbook or write new recipes on the lined paper.
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Tips & Warnings
Print the tabbed labels carefully so they're easy to read.
Resources
- Photo Credit Photos.com/PhotoObjects.net/Getty Images
