We adore Earth Day here at HPB, and we’re showing extra appreciation this year through our HPBeGood Challenge, where we’re encouraging our community to find more ways to Read, Reuse, and Recycle all year long.
Today we’re focusing on the Reuse part of the HPBeGood challenge! We love a good old fashioned bookish craft, especially for those *particularly* well-loved books looking for a second life. Here are three crafts we’re especially inspired by!
1. Book planters (created by Kiki Baughman, Display Specialist, HPB Flagship store in Dallas, TX)
2. Folded book art (created by Alex Stauffer, Marketing Project Manager, HPB Corporate Office)
3. Upcycled bookmarks (created by Kristen Dickson, Marketing Special Projects Associate, HPB Corporate Office)
Looking for more ways to turn your former reads into something new? Pinterest and YouTube are awesome resources for tutorials, or feel free to ask process-related questions below! What are some of your favorite bookish crafts? Let us know in the comments!
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Our teen librarian had a program where they made a flower wreath out of book pages!
Cutting pages into exact squares to be used for origami which can accompany poetry
One year at the Austin International Poetry Festival we did this exercise to get get the creative juices flowing. Take a few random pages. Circle or underline or highlight the interesting words. Pause and think about them. Select a few words between them to connect them. Finally black out all of the other words on the page.
Keep these terrific ideas coming!
Old book pages can be used in all sorts of wonderful collage projects. I collaged star ornaments with pages from Dickens, Bronte and others…I also found an old plaster cat sculpture and with pages from an old copy of JANE EYRE collaged it and named it: “Jane’s Cat”…