How to make a Tunnel Book

Step 3 Binding all of the pages

Now you should have all of the pages glued down and cut out properly. Remember, the borders on top, bottom, and sides should all get wider as the pages go higher in number. Just to avoid confusion, if the borders on page 1 were about 1/2 inch, you might want to make the borders on page 2 one inch and one page 3 1.5 inches and so on.
Anyway..now that you have all of the pages done you need to make little accordion strips to bind them. That's also what gives them a tunneled out look because the accordion strips space out the pages more. The cardstock is good to use because it's not to light to where it will be too floppy but it's just stiff enough to keep everything standing upright. You can make the accordion pieces as tall as the book is or you can just make them into strips and attach them to the sides.

Comments

[laurap81]

All you have to do is make tabs attached to your pages and then glue the tabs down to the accordian shaped long paper on each side, it works and no hot glue needed, I teach this lesson to my fifth graders and elmer glue works great!

[Buzzsushi]

How exactly are you supposed to attach the pages to this?

[Doldrum]

 I went through a LOT of experimenting with that.  At first I hot glued and that would work okay for smaller books, but the more you used the book it would start to brittle and the pages would eventually fall out.  (I'm not saying it won't work though)  Epoxy is like cement and works great.  I would spread some out on a piece of cardboard and work really quickly because it congeals super quick.  Paint it on the edges of your pages and then stuff it into the accordian creases and hold for about five minutes until it dries.  it's an annoying process lol.  
I've been thinking about trying to sew the pages in somehow and see how that works out... 

[Buzzsushi]

Well Im SOOO making one. But I will try sewing, cuz im broke, out of hot glue sticks, and my dad wont let me use epoxy lol. thanks!

[Buzzsushi]

You know... i think I will try making my designs on the computer, then printing them on note cards, to make a more sturdy, yet more portable book.

[bobdog]

Make sure you buy acid free or archival note cards for this.  You may get away with non-archival paper on many projects, but notecards yellow nearly as fast as cheap paperbacks.  It's a good policy to just use the archival supplies anyway.  Hm, you might want to try using acid free drawing paper , the textured varieties may give interesting effects.