ALTERED BOOKS

7th/8th Grade

This past summer Mrs. Kramer visited the local Danville Community Library and discovered a giveaway of old discarded books in the corner of the front entrance. Upon asking the front desk, she was told they would be hers if she could carry them all to her car...which she promptly DID...thus...a new project was born! This was the beginning of our ALTERED BOOKS.

Students picked out their favorite book in the pile offered and decided on their particular theme...horses, paintball, fashion, colors, weather elements, dreams, etc. After working on different painting techniques like sponging, credit-card scraping, paste papers, etc., it was time to bring in items from home to add to our covers and pages.

We started by painting the covers with gesso and decorating the outside first. Here you will see some of our covers.

Next we started our pages by collaging, painting, weaving, sewing, making pockets, and glue pages. After five weeks Mrs. Kramer had to FORCE the class to stop and bring the books to conclusion. Below you can see some of the pages done by students. Just wish we could have had a whole semester to work on these!