I started with sheet of used copy paper with writing on one side. I made a continuous line scribble on the side without the writing that covered the entire paper.
For the front and back cover, I used marker. On one of the inside spreads, I used colored pencils. For another I used two sizes of black and white marker and drew lines and shapes. For the other I filled them in with letters.
This would be a great activity for travel. Make a few scribble books and then take markers or pencils for coloring in on the road.
Written Directions for Hot Dog Booklet
In Spanish
See all the pages on flickr
GIVEAWAY!
116 comments:
I almost never participate in raffles, but I truly love handmade books! Today I will give it a try. Thank you, Susan, for keeping such an wonderful blog.
I love your website. I use the ideas when my granddaughters come over. I also share them with teachers in my school.
I posted my comment anaonymously, but didn't mean to!
Love the site!
Sue
I love the scribble book! Thanks.
I'd love to be included in the drawing. Making books is my passion!
Hi Susan, your blog inspire my kids in school and me many times. Thanks for sharing all the great book and workshop that u made.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful bookmaking ideas. I look forward to your blogs and find the ideas so useful for teaching children as well as for myself! Thanks!
I have never participated in giveaways but the book sounds like something I'd really want to have. I am from India so not sure if I qualify for this. Would be really happy to win one. :)
On another note, I often visit your blog for book ideas. I love making accordion books with my 5 year old daughter.
I love books and I love crafts...so of course I love this website. My daughter will be so excited to make the scribble book when she gets out of school later this week. Thank you for a great summer project!
This looks great! I'm an origami fan, and the book tempts me greatly.
Oh my gosh, simple but fun! I'm itching to get new crayons.
This book looks inspirational, as are your blog posts. I've got the whole summer with my twin almost-eight year olds....lots of art to explore!
Thank you for all of your great ideas! I teach at a middle school and started up a little after school art club because we don't have any art classes! I am inspired by your ideas and have used several of them! This scribble book will be tested on my nieces and granddaughters this summer!
I love making books with my students and with my grandchildren. This would be a wonderful resource.
This looks like a fun project. I agree with you.....I love to scribble and I love to color!!
I taught 2 of my young friends how to make your hotdog book a few weeks ago. One used it to make a special book for her father for father's day. He was delighted! Both girls are coming later this week to learn how to make another kind of book! I'll show them the scribble book while they are here.
I'm going camping with my almost two-year old granddaughter. This hot dog book is a great activity to take along for a busy little one who likes to draw lines. The materials are easy to take along, she will enjoy watching the book take shape and I can journal on the pages as she draws on them - a nice keepsake for our trip. I also love the hotdog books made of grocery sacks wth smaller hotdog books added inside. Great for journaling about each days adventures! Thanks!
Handmade books have become a terrific sideline for me. Many gifts, poetry books and memorials have been made thanks to the inspiration of other bookmakers.
This book offering is such a great idea!
Our family has benefited greatly from your insight with book-making! I look forward to learning more from this new resource. Hope I win! Thanks for offering the giveaway!
I sometimes make scribble books in the style of favorite artists: Klimt & Matisse. Cool challenge for older kids.
I also work as an Artist In Residence at a hospital. A patient's mom was drawing "zen tangles" and I showed her the Hot Dogbook. It was a beautiful combination!
I love the sharing that the Internet facilitates. This is a favorite site. Thank you, Susan!
Looks like a fun project for the car.
I am always fascinated by how Susan's "simple" ideas turn into something profound, and this is one of them. It is the perfect alternative to prefab coloring books for kids on a trip, and it's a lovely way for adults to keep the creativity flowing without the "stress" of formal artmaking on a trip. I treasure Susan's info on bookmaking.
I love the work that you do! I am excited to share with more of the students at my school in my new position as media specialist.
I'm an elementary school librarian and find your blog inspiring for recess activities and a great annual program called Discovery Day. Thanks for all the ideas!
I love making handmade books! Add my name to the drawing. Thanks!
I have relied on your books and website for many project ideas. I teach a Children's Lit course for education majors and having my students create books, has made the course much richer.
Some of my students have no framework for evaluating the quality of books aimed at children --they don't see the value in amazing art or carefully chosen language. Through the process of creating their own books, and talking about the choices they've made, most come to value truly great children's lit.
Thanks for all the inspiration!
This will be the first give-away that I've participated in, but the book looks like a must-have. I love books and book-arts, your blog, and all the wonderful book-making ideas on your site!
Hi Susan! I enjoy receiving your newsletter. You have wonderful ideas for personal artistic reflection and great ideas for working with kids. Your latest idea reminds me of the meditative drawing of Zentangle. I love your idea of carrying free-from scribbles across the pages in book format. Thanks for sharing your creativity!
Thanks for the opportunity to win this book - when I do win, it will be given to our daughter, a teacher who is always on the look out for fantastic ideas like this.
One of my favorite souvenirs of my son's little-boyhood is a terrific full page scribble. What a great idea - to turn it into a book.
That would be great to have this book and find new ideas for my workshops with children!And thank you for your special blog!
thanks for the opportunity susan...if I am lucky enough to "win" I will share the contents with my havana cuba kids next year again!!sounds like a great book!
Susan, as an elementary art teacher, I have been enjoying "making books monthly" with other elementary teachers for awhile now. This year, I actually had teachers asking me for your site info so they could get more ideas to combine with their writing projects.Yay!!
I remember such travel projects - before the days of GameBoy and portable DVD players. Great suggestion, as always!
Neat! Reminds me of something we used to do as children but used rulers to make the spaces. Love it!
Been to the web site and the book looks fantastic.
Susan, I have to thank you for your emails, books and creative ideas. They always give me the shove I need, just when I am feeling tapped out!
This idea is just in time. I am doing a "Girl Power" workshop at our local library where we will be making our own journals and diaries. I plan to share this with them. Thanks!!
I love your ideas and books. Can't wait to use some of these with my students this fall! Thank you!
What a treat! Thanks for making this possible. I've been a fan for many years. Thanks for all of your efforts on behalf of children (adults, too), art and literacy. The scribble page in book for is a great idea!
Love the scribble art. Can't wait to try this with my 2nd and 3rd graders. I think I might also try this idea in a book I am making right now. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
A cool idea, Susan. Thanks so much. I'm going to do this with my second-graders tomorrow!!
Cate
hurricanecate at yahoo dot com
I never participate in raffles either, but I have enjoyed making your books as gifts, with my kids, and occasionally as part of my psychotherapy practice. I would love to learn more about bookmaking!
thank you for the SIMPLE ideas. My special ed art students feel so accomplished and satisfied when they create something like this!
As a fabric collage artist, I've only recently dipped my toes into the world of mixed media book making. I've been learning lots from your site and newsletter. Only problem: I'm afraid it might all end up being addicting!
Thank you for your art and sharing, Susan. I would LOVE a copy of Erin's book, too...
Peace AND Prosperity,
Kate
Kate Stockman
Hendersonville, NC
Susan, You have shown once again that sometimes the most enjoyable activities can originate from the simplest beginnings. What a dreamy way to take an "artist break" on a summer's day! This would also be a way to quickly convert the blank page of an art journal into something beautiful and waiting for nothing more than a word or two dozen to finish it off. Your posts always make my creative thoughts spin. Thank you so much!
Love your hot dog book!The hot dog book has been a hit with the young kids at our library. Writing their own book is exciting for kids learning to read, and this way they can make them to their hearts' content! I'm also taking this idea to my picture book critique group tonight, just for fun. (And for myself, I make these up to keep in my purse to jot down ideas and notes.)
I love your book making ideas, I've shared your ideas and site with teachers. I enjoy making the books. Thank you for sharing.
Victoria
The Hot Dog book is a grandkid favorite in my house. Keeps them busy when I need time for other things -- this is a great addition to an already good idea. My youngest grandson wanted me to outline (like a coloring book, he said) a picture so he could color it in rather than random squiggles. Nice.
Your Garden Tag book is a great way to involve kids, but it is an inspiration also to document your garden - over time - maybe in a journal where pages could be added. I nature printed leaves and flowers from my garden using stamp pad ink (you can use black and color with liquid acrylics or watercolor) - and it is a place to put notes about success and failure, ideas for the future, pictures, etc.
A friend posted this link and I was telling her that on a mission trip I made these scribbles and tons of kids in an orphanage loved to color them in! I don't think they had ever seen them! On this next trip I think I will make copies and bring them with me!
Love the scribble book and please do enter me in your great giveaway. Love the blog. I've come over from the newsletter.
Well, I'm feeling a little greedy about writing a comment, because I haven't for ages, but it's lovely to see how other readers use and enjoy what they find on the blog. It feels like the manifestation of a community I didn't realize I belonged too!
I love your blog and your creative handmade books. What a variety! Please enter my name in the giveaway!
Thank you for your generous blog ideas. My grandchildren are the benefactor of them! What fun to have a drawing.
Dear Susan,
I love how generous you have been by sharing your information and inspiring others using the printed word and digital formats. As a school librarian, I show students every chance I get how to make a hotdog book and a hamburg book from scrap paper. It's very special what you do...keep sharing. Love, t
My goodness, there is nothing like a giveaway to increase the commentary. :-) thanks for posting about that book, I spent a lovely time over at Shambala looking at their other craft books. And also another visit to the Morgan Library. thanks for all of your sharing.
Am I on time? I guess I'm a bit far away... but who knows :)
thank you for sharing your ideas... Now that school has ended I hope to have more time to try more books... for me, not (only) for my pupils!
Enjoy your Summer,
adele
Thanks! I've used many of your ideas in my classroom. Andrea
When a friend I just called to help me down off an "emotional ledge" learned that I'm taking my first ever watercolor class tomorrow, she said she expected to see my wc version of "The Scream." Couldn't imagine that ... but now can certainly see me scribble-booking it! Thanks for the creative way 'off the ledge' ... and a new appreciation for art therapy!
Looks like a book that could be useful at home and at school. Thanks for your great site!
I love your blog and recommend it to all my teacher and book art friends. I teach art in a juvenile detention center, and am hoping to use some of your ideas to encourage the youth to make books and tell their stories.
Congratulations on such a great blog!
This is a great little project and I believe it'd be a fun way to start a day off in the studio, getting those right brain functions warmed up.
At the lease, it's a good way to practice colour pencil mixing, textures, etc.
This will be a perfect end-of-the year book cover for my third graders' class memory book. While I organize files, they get creative with a beautiful cover! Thank you!
I love getting your emails. I have recently written a curriculum for a bookmaking elective at the high school level. It is fun to see your ideas and then use them for jumping off points to new ideas.
There is always great inspiration.
pac
I, too, love your ideas for bookmaking with kids. I have used several of them with my students in my elementary library and they have loved making them! The scribble book is easy and fun - a great addition to my bookmaking with kids!!
-Jennifer
I use your book ideas as thank yous instead of a store bought card. More fun to give a handmade book.
Thanks for sharing. This book would be a welcome addition to my library.
I love making books and would love to have your book.
Karen
Love making books w/ children. At Wacky Wednesday summer library programs we've made CD summer poems books, bathroom tissue tube father's day song books, corrugated cardboard summer goals books, w/ more to come. Mahalo for lots of ideas.
I remember scribbleing and coloring when I was a kid, and I love making hot dog books
Wow I'm sure this book would contain lots of ideas I could use with my class at school Love to win it.
KC
I love the fact that you use repurposed materials in your handmade books! I do summer camps with children and am always looking for ways to recycle.
Pauline
fiberlooney@yahoo.com
I've used so many of your ideas that I learned in workshops that I've taken with you. This is another great one to use with the children at my school. Thank you!
I'm suddenly having a vivid memory of a 6th grade art project, coloring in scribbles just like that. It's amazing how much that still conjures up, even decades later.
Having been a faithful reader and lover of all things book, I would be more than thrilled to win this lovely book! My fingers are crossed!
One of our favorite 1st grade activities (1961) was Mrs. Huseby creating these special coloring pages for each one of us. As a teacher, I now wonder what lesson might have got wrong, or quicker than planned. :)
I love making books. We met at a workshop for teachers at Clark University in Worcester, MA several years ago. I love the Spirit books. You are an inspiration. Keep making beautiful art.
I've had my eye out for Erin's book but haven't seen it locally! Wouldn't this be fun!
would love to add this book to my library of classroom resources....
bdteach3197@yahoo.com
Thank you for offering this special book. Your ideas inspire my students to love and respect books and to value their own writing.
Yes! I'd love to win this fantastic book!
Thanks for the great idea. We are going on vacation soon and this seems like a nice way to keep 3 kids occupied in the van!
Yes! I would love to win this fantastic book!
having almost finished with small grand children I now have a great grand child to do things with and your books are such a lovely way for me at my now more advanced age to entertain him. Thank you.
I have truly enjoyed your book-making directions. We have made a few at home and the kids have enjoyed them. I will be trying out the scribble/color book idea! what fun. Thanks!
I love your blog and all of the projects you share. I would love a chance to win the book.
This looks like so much FUN --- no matter what your age!
I love that you always provide instructions in both Spanish and English. Thank you for that!
I think this is a great idea for re-using warm up drawings from my students. They never seem to want them and I can't put them in the recycle bin. Great idea!
I used to love making these colored-in scribbles when I was a kid. This inspires me to do it again as an adult. It's still fun!
Love your creative book ideas. Thank you.
This is so nice! If you have children who are glued to their computers you can do a scribble on the Paint accessory in Windows, then fill in the spaces with different colors, creating unexpected faces, animals, boats......
I came across your blog today. What a great book.
Ann
cozyintexas@yahoo.com
Would love to have a copy of the book - always looking for new inspiration!
I'm so glad I found your website and blog! I love making books with my students.
You are an inspiration!!!
Love your blogs. Use your ideas with my students and for myself.
Would LOVE the book!
Thank you for your inspiring blog. Would love to win the book!
Susan,
I love your website and I have made some of the books I have found on it with some children I have taught. You have such great ideas! Thanks for the inspiration
The books you make and feature have been wonderful for use with my kids and in my tutoring activities. I'm always on the lookout or new ideas. Thanks for sharing your talent and for letting us play along.
I love getting your emails. I am inspired to make more books with my students. I am an art teacher. I will follow the blog in September for sure. Thanks so much!
Michele Barnes
Great blog! This is the first time I've come across it and I'm excited to read more :)
I've been following books monthly with great interest, appreciation and shared the link with others. Your ideas have found their way into the work I do with children, so thank you.
Sharon Pontier
wonderful resource, put my name in the hat please
Hi Susan!
I Love your scribble book! Your book ideas are always fun and easy to do with kids or adults who want to get into making books and are a bit afraid to start. Thank you for sharing your flashes of inspiration!
I love your blog. It's neat, easy to navigate and we can see on one page what you are up to.
You are a great teacher and uplifter!
So simple! Scribble book...a great idea.
Jan
I love your blog. This tutorial will be perfect for a project with my granddaughter next week.
I remember doing these scribbles as an elementary student. I like the idea of using it as a book.
Thank you for such interesting ideas! I'd love to be entered in the drawing.
I love handmade books, and I'll be happy if I win one of them.
I want to enter in the drawing, too.
Thanks
costaschultz@ig.com.br
Love this site. Hope I win!
I love your projects! They are truly inspirational! Your Scribble book reminds me of long ago. I never liked coloring books and used to doodle just like this!
I teach seniors and emotionally handicapped children, what a wonderful idea for the scribble book for them! Thank you for all your inspiring ideas!
Love the scribble book idea. I'm making one for my daughter right now...she loves to doodle and color.
I love Book Arts Tuesdays!
Great book for a giveaway! Might have to look this up if I don't win it :)
Rhonda
Do take a look at the book. The Giveaway has closed. Thanks for your comments.
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