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I recently found a huge collection of ruined old books at the local dump and immediatly thought of Harry Potter the Hogwarts library.
This is a tutorial to show how I converted these old encyclopeadias into Hogwarts style spellbooks.
These books are a great way to display your Harry Potter wands or other collactables, and are very cheap and pretty quick to do, all you need is and old book some easily avaliable supplies and a fair ammount of patience!
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There are two VERY important disclaimers to note at this point, the first is that this is really and adults only project (or adult supervision STRONGLY recommended!) as you'll need to use a very sharp scalpel to cut the new title into the cover of the book. The second point is to be careful what book you use! The olny reason I could bear to de-face these books is because they had been left in the damp and rain for months so they were ruined before I started.
In short be VERY careful that you're not going to destroy a first edition copy of "Peter Pan" or "The Count of Monte Cristo"
Below is a pic of the book as I found it
In short be VERY careful that you're not going to destroy a first edition copy of "Peter Pan" or "The Count of Monte Cristo"
Below is a pic of the book as I found it
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Here is my attempt:
http://mrsohtobe.blogspot.com/2011/08/shhhh.html
Thank you so much for sharing this! Now I've got one more task on my list of things to do...
Non the less do recommend supervision and give them some safety tips. But this would be a great project for kids if they want to make a harry potter themed bedroom or something.
Great "Ible" 5.0!
Having said that I was breaking my dad's old razor blades in half in the 3rd grade to make my own craft blades - had not yet heard of X-acto or single-edge blades LOL. Some teacher saw me using them to sharpen and shape pencil points and had kittens on the spot. Did not understand why regular pencil sharpeners weren't enough. Sigh. Artistic kids have been dealing with their own kind of "muggle" for years!
In fact I hereby propose a new use of the word "muggle" to mean oblivious people who just don't get what their more creative friends and neighbors are up to! (This should not be used to imply stupidity, but rather lack of a special understanding only a few people out of the billions in the world are lucky enough to have been given.)
I really mean no offence to my younger readers by stating "adults only", perhaps it should read "adult supervision recommended?"
I've been on the loosing side of numerous scalpel battles and have the (deep) scars to remember them by, I've had to go to hospital twice and have had plenty of stiches, all in the same finger!
I just don't want to be responsible for anyone else hurting themselves!
I am sorry if it's a bit patronising and thanks for all you kind words!
I want to get old leather bound books, but have no idea where to find them.