Cindy Crushes Programming: Book Page Painting

I got this idea at C2E2 our local comic con. I saw painted pages of the dictionary and thought I could do that. This craft was very cheap and fun.

Supplies

• Paint
• Brushes (Round Sponge Brush)
• Old Junky books
• Stencils

A note about books and book pages: I was lucky to get old copies of Percy Jackson, Shadow and Bone, Crooked Kingdom and Mockingjay and Catching Fire. The books I did not find old copies of were all in public domain such as Pride and Prejudice and Sherlock Holmes so I just used the printer to print pages of these works after I found them in a google search.

Step One: Make Stencils  Beforehand

Faith Healy made our stencils on the Cricut machine. You can also check out this older TLT post to learn how to turn a photo into a silhouette for a project like this: https://teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2017/07/24/makerspace-how-to-turn-a-photo-into-a-silhouette-and-make-it-into-a-book-page-button-of-course/

Step Two: Preparing the Page

Pick out the book you want to paint and the color. Pick out the page and gently tear it out of the book.

Step three: Painting

Hold the stencil very still and paint the image on the book.

Step four: Let Dry

I did not spend any money on this one since I used items we had. It was so much fun! I plan on framing some of my images. This craft was fast and easy. I used an hour but it could take even less time.

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