indigo nature arts

Day Twenty-Three 

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Theme: Telling Stories and Paper Cutouts

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Have you ever made a book or thought of making one? I'll bet the answer is yes. We all have a story in us. It could be a poem that is turned into a book. It can be a story about something that has happened to you. Or it can be something from your imagination. It can be just a few pages or as many as you like.

 

The important part of making a book is telling your story in a clear way so others can enjoy it. Some books only have pictures. (We've discussed this before!)

Today I want to share a story with you that I wrote and illustrated with paper cutouts. It's a book about clay. I titled it, Lump of Clay. The book is for young children and tells the story about the things you can make from a lump of clay. I wanted the pictures to be colorful, so I used bright card stock. If you don't have color paper, you can paint full sheets of white paper with bright colors and cut them out when the paint dries.

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Paper cutouts can be as simple as you want. When you're older you can use a knife called an X-Acto to cut out pictures.

 

I used scissors, an X-Acto blade and a hole puncher to cut out my illustrations. Remember to ask for help if you need something cut out that's too difficult. It will get easier as you get older.

 

Once I cut out my shapes, I glued them onto colorful paper. I used the computer to type the words, and printed the pages before gluing down the pictures. But you can easily write the words by hand, if there are words.