1. Reading By Design | Summer 2017
November 3, 2016
Reading By Design | Summer 2017

2. trigger warning!
the following slides contain images of dismantled and repurposed books
which may disturb some viewers…
take a moment to breathe deeply and remember the great book cycle of life…
a new book is bought and then is read/loved to death
the book gets recycled to become other new books… rinse and repeat forever…
occasionally though, the book becomes book art in a library (or in a librarian’s CLA presentation)…
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3. rainbows and color wheels
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4. rosettes
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5. paper chains
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6. book page letters Reading By Design | Summer 2017 3 November 2016
i cut pages out of a dictionary that was donated (you could use one that you’re discarding or any large text heavy book) i trimmed the paper down (in this case it was about 8 ¼ x 11 inches and then i ran it through the printer to print the letters...very simple and looks great!
Reading By Design | Summer 2017
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7. book page art
i went to which has free clip art for classroom use...
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8. large cardboard letters
keep some cardboard boxes aside and use a boxcutter or other blade to cut out letters. i just drew some vague guidelines with pencil to follow. then you can use newsprint, old book pages, old graphic novel or manga pages or just paint the letters...then attach to the wall, a bulletin board or lean them somewhere for a nice display!
Reading By Design | Summer 2017
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9. “it’s so fluffy i’m gonna die!”
piñata letters
“it’s so fluffy i’m gonna die!”
-agnes, despicable me
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10. cut out letters from cardboard (i just eyeballed it but you can get
piñata letters
take 2in squares of tissue and twist them around the eraser of a pencil
then put some glue on them and stick them to the cardboard very close together...
cut out letters from cardboard (i just eyeballed it but you can get
as precise as you want..)
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11. book cover letters 3 November 2016
print out bookcovers and then trim them into letters. you can eyeball it, make guidelines with a pencil or try and create templates to use...
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12. triangle or pennant bunting
use graphic novels or fiction that has art as a theme and make bunting to hang as a visual booklist, or just make bunting in different colors...
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13. ribbon bunting 3 November 2016
use artwork to make ribbon style bunting...you can use images from the same artist and have a contest to see who can guess the artist or make it really difficult and use bits of a particular painting and see if people can identify the painting...
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14. circle bunting 3 November 2016
use a circle cutter or punch or just scissors and make circle bunting...
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15. ransom letters & bookpage backdrops
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16. and then glue them together to make a flower
origami flower balls
make origami petals
(so many petals!)
and then glue them together to make a flower
(so many flowers!) but actually, each flower has 5 petals and you need 12 flowers…so…
Reading By Design | Summer 2017
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17. origami flower balls
attach them together to make 2 halves and put the string in one of them.
I used glue on the small ones and staples on the large one.
the large one was actually easier to work with…
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18. origami flower balls
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19. garlands
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20. Warhol-esque artwork Reading By Design | Summer 2017 3 November 2016
you can open images in word and then use the formatting options in
the picture tools menu that pops up to make images black and white
and high contrast or just find basic graphic b/w clip art online
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21. Warhol art
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22. Warhol art
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23. rasterbator.net for posters
start with a picture of an adorable kitty!
go to rasterbator.net and follow the instructions to upload the image...
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24. rasterbator.net for posters
the result is a pixelated image that is printed on multiple sheets of paper like a puzzle
you can tell it how big you want the final poster to be...
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25. also this one!
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26. apps for memes/words on pictures
word swag
word swag has free images that come with the program...you can enter the text you want and choose a style that is mostly preset but you can change the size and some spacing....
word swag costs $5 but if you think you’ll use it for things it might be worth it...
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27. title fx Reading By Design | Summer 2017 3 November 2016
title fx costs $2...both will let you put in your own images as well, title fx gives you a little more control over the spacing and style and gives lots of different font options...
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28. prisma app
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29. elyse barrere LAPL, ebarrere@lapl.org pinterest.com/sadiegrrrl
Contact:
elyse barrere LAPL, pinterest.com/sadiegrrrl
The California Summer Reading Program is a project of the California Library Association, supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Reading By Design | Summer 2017
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