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How to Make Preschool Books

In an age of spending cutbacks and slashed education funding, preschool teachers look for alternatives to purchase classroom supplies. Teachers are particularly unhappy if the bookshelves in the room are bare. The dilemma created by a sparse class library and no budget to buy books calls for a creative solution. Fill the gaps in your preschool class library with homemade books that you design for specific classroom subjects.

Things You'll Need

  • 8-by-10-inch card stock
  • Construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Markers
  • Laminating machine
  • Hole puncher
  • Book rings
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Instructions

    • 1

      Choose a concept for a preschool book. Create a book about colors, letters or a classroom theme. Decide the number of pages you will need to make the book. Count out enough pieces of card stock for each page of the book.

    • 2

      Make each page of the book. Cut letters of the alphabet from construction paper to glue to individual pages for a letter book. Use a marker to write a word that begins with each letter directly below the letter on the page. Cut and glue a circle, square and other shapes to pages if you choose to make a shape book. Write the name of the shape beneath it. Modify the concept --- choosing a picture or representation with a corresponding word printed underneath --- for any book theme.

    • 3

      Make a cover for your preschool book. Write a title and glue a picture to the cover. Decorate the back cover or leave it blank.

    • 4

      Laminate the pages and the front and back cover. Trim the edges.

    • 5

      Stack the pages of the book in order. Place the front cover on top and the back cover on the bottom. Punch three evenly spaced holes, 1-inch into the left side of the book.

    • 6

      Slide the book rings through the punched holes and snap them closed.

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