Creating Individual Books

http://www.mykidsadventures.com/homemade-book/

This website shows you how students can create their own hand-made books.

I personally love the idea of children creating their own books, because it gives them a place to express their thoughts. Children can be creative when making books, and make them in many different ways with unusual materials.

When children write books of their own, there are no rules. Their imaginations can run wild with the idea that they can write about ANYTHING they want! Figures 7.10-12 in our book show more great examples of how children can construct their own books using yarn, staples, glue, and paper.

This activity could be used at a writing center as our book suggests, but I would do the actual construction as an entire class. The children could then work on writing and illustrating their book each day at the writing center.