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Craft a Kid’s Journal From Recycled Materials
This homemade diary fashioned from common household items would be loved by your youngster, and it even has places for storing treasures!
My daughters both enjoy keeping diaries. They write down all kinds of tales, notes, lists, dreams, and drawings in their journals. And there is nothing better for them to write in than a brand-new journal. Even better, though, is if they made the journals themselves out of recyclable materials they discovered lying around the house.
To promote your children’s writing, drawing, collecting, thinking, and creativity, try creating a DIY diary with them.
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What You’ll Need
- Cereal box
- a variety of paper sheets, including recycled paper bags, coloured paper, scrapbooking paper, already created artwork, and abandoned notebook pages.
- (To create “treasure pockets” inside the journal, use 2-3 envelopes). One can reuse previously used envelopes.
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Stapler
- Tape (decorative tape is preferred)
- Markers
How to Make the Journal
Step 1: Choose the size of your journal. (We based our decision on the size of the envelopes in our prize pockets.) Have your youngster cut a front and a back cover out of the cardboard of the cereal box. Make a stack of the various papers you’ve gathered to use as the journal’s interior pages. Then, ask your youngster to evenly trim each page so that it fits inside the covers.
Step 2: Have your child personalise the journal’s front cover. On the front cover of hers, my daughter affixed a previously owned piece of art and added a label with a black marker. As an alternative, your child could decorate the cardboard with tape, paint, or drawing.
Step 3: Your youngster will use the envelopes as “treasure pockets” to store cherished keepsakes. Ask her to arrange the envelopes and interior papers in a manner that pleases her. The journal’s front and/or back covers, as well as arbitrary journal pages, may all contain the hidden treasures.
Step 4:-Assist your youngster in aligning all the pages within the front and back covers before stapling them to the spine of the book. She can then use tape to cover the journal’s spine’s staples on the front and back.
When finished, your child’s journal is prepared for writing ideas, thoughts, and emotions in. Additionally, he can keep trinkets (flowers, leaves, notes, wrappers, discovered objects, etc.) in the pockets.
Your child probably won’t be able to make just one diary if she loves them as much as mine do.