These were a lot of fun to make and I think they came out really cute! To make your own paper bag book, you just take paper lunch bags, fold them in half, and staple up the side. We used 4 bags for ours, faced all the open bag ends to one side, and folded them in half. I think it would also be cute to punch holes and tie the sides up with ribbon, but I couldn't find our hole puncher.
Your motivation to make the book out of paper bags rather than regular paper is to create little pockets in the pages so that you can add pull tabs like this:
We used 4 paper bags stacked together and folded in half so that we would have 4 pocket pages- one for each different set of the mysteries of the rosary. You just cut some square paper in the right size to fit inside the page, and then staple a piece of ribbon on for pulling it out.
We actually got stickers of all the mysteries of the rosary at the Dollar Tree! (They were with the Easter stuff. They're not labeled, so you have to know what you're looking at). If you don't have these stickers, you could just print images from online for each mystery. (Under Her Starry Mantle has 20 good size depictions of each mystery of the rosary from the great masters! Find them here!)
Lydia chose all different colored scrapbooking paper to make her mysteries of the rosary pages, and different colors of ribbon for each page. So cute!
Lydia chose all different colored scrapbooking paper to make her mysteries of the rosary pages, and different colors of ribbon for each page. So cute!
I tried to match my papers to the feeling of each set of the mysteries. So I chose paper that seemed joyful, sorrowful, luminous, and glorious. Be sure to stagger your ribbons so they stick out at different places on the side of your book.
We wrote in the mysteries of the rosary on the pages where to pull tabs went. Here's one of Lydia's pages:
At the front of the book we wrote in our "Rosary Prayers". Here are the pictures from my book in order so you can just see what we put on each page. It would be a lot easier to print out the prayers and mysteries so you could just cut and glue them into your pages, but we wrote them out because my printer is broken.
Each page from front to back:
(on the back)
I just absolutely love this rosary craft! If you'll see on the pages with the prayers, we cut out paper that looks like the beads that match our beginner rosaries. You could also pair these books with my easy rosary craft.
I just love how bright and cheery the colors of Lydia's rosary book are!
I am obsessed with this new idea of making paper bag books, so I'm sure you'll see some more here soon! I'm obsessed with our paper bag puppets, too. Apparently I have a thing for paper bags. ;-)
If you're wondering why there are about one million pictures of these books, it's because on Friday I lost my camera and yesterday I was able to get a new one, so I'm having fun with my new "toy". :-) I did loose a lot of pictures when I lost my camera, which is why there are no pictures of this craft "in progress", and is also why I haven't posted since last Thursday. I have several things left to re-photograph still! I'm hoping to find the time this week!
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