How to Make a Paper Book Cover

Video Transcript

"So you want to pack your book around but you don't want to mess it all up or you don't want people to see what you are reading especially if you are reading one of those trashy romance novels. My name is Robert Segundo and today I'm going to teach you how to make a simple book cover. What we have got here is we have got a little book and I've got my paper here that I'm going to be using, now if you can't find paper big enough what I used to use was paper bags so what we are going to do is we are going to take our book and lay it on top here and get a good idea of what we need. We are just going to take this side and fold it up and make it as square as possible all across the bottom. Now what we are going to do is look here and see which one we need to fold right there is where it needs to go. There you go. That is basically it. What we are going to do is take and fold this over until these sides are basically even like so and kind of crease it in a little bit, open our first flap up and fold it up and it looks like our book cover is going to be a bit too big but that's alright we'll fix that. Slide our book in up to that point and kick it back a little bit and now what I am going to do is I'm just going to take my scissors and cut some of this excess off and open my book up, fold it over a little bit and just slide that right over my book as well and there you have it a nice little book cover. Now you can walk down the street and hang with your boys and not let them know you are reading trashy romance. Play around with it, have fun and enjoy."