How Do You Make A Paper-Bag Book Cover?
A periodic homework assignment in a lot of schools is to put covers on textbooks. Many schools make it easy by allowing stretchy BookSox, but others insist on these old-fashioned brown-paper-bag numbers. While most kids will learn to do this on their own, children with special needs may always depend on Mom or Dad to handle this particular assignment. Can’t quite remember how? Here’s your cheat sheet. See an illustrated version of this how-to.Difficulty: EasyTime Required: A few minutesHere’s How: • Cut open a brown paper shopping bag. Remove the flap formed by the bottom of the bag so that you have one large sheet of brown paper. • Place the book in the center of the paper. • Wrap the paper up across the bottom of the book and make a crease along the bottom cover. • Repeat Step 3 for the top of the book. • Remove the book from the paper. • Fold the paper up at the bottom crease and down at the top crease.
