Book art - Hokey Stokes

A friend shared this blog with me - amazing, magical, book art with a surprise behind the covers / beyond the spine - created by artist and scientist Julia Field
http://hokeystokes.blogspot.com/

Here are a couple of beautiful book page wreaths for Christmas...
http://hokeystokes.blogspot.com/search/label/papercraft

Thanks Linda :)

Making books with children blog

Making books with children is a great activity and one of the most enthusiastic proponents of this art is Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord.
She has a blog about making simple books with children using mainly recycled materials http://makingbookswithchildren.blogspot.com/
For each activity there is a link to a season or festival or event, the guidelines for making the books and links to youtube videos if needed, as well as some further resources or websites to enrich the content.

Her latest post on September 11 2010 is a charming accordion book celebrating bees - simple and effective, and a wonderful opportunity for writing, art, craft, creativity and authorship...
http://makingbookswithchildren.blogspot.com/2010/09/bee-accordion.html

Ideas for what to do with weeded books

Some fun activities are suggested in this article available from the SCIS Connections newsletter :
eg making bookmarks and place mats, dioramas, book art, etc...

http://www2.curriculum.edu.au/scis/connections/a_new_life_for_weeded_books.html