This is how we earned the Book Artist badge.
1. Explore the art of bookbinding.
She brought in 5 different books to look through and evaluate. She had a board book, paperback, hardback, Bible, and she brought in her Kindle for an electronic book. The girls talked about the similarities, differences, and which they liked the most, as well as the difficulties faced with a few formats (if you forget to charge the Kindle and you are right at the good part, you'll have to find a charger and/or wait.)
2. Get familiar with the insides of a book

My only piece of advice when working with old books... well, maybe a few pieces... make sure it's something that you don't want, of little value, and be careful... rusty staples will send you to the ER for a tetanus shot! We were careful and no one was harmed.
3. Try out book artist techniques

4. Focus on function
Next up, another book to make. I had leftover chipboard and library rings. So, I brought in scrapbook paper (as requested), cardstock, and chipboard covers. The girls put everything together, decorated their pages and covers, and used library rings to hold it all together. They were cute. This project did take a little time, but our meetings are almost 3 hours so it was fine.
5. Focus on style
This was a tweak and loose interpretation of this step... we made ornaments. Pretty simple.
http://www.betterbudgeting.org/2015/09/homemade-christmas-ornaments-paper-trees.html
Did your girls do one comic as a troop or did each girl do one?
ReplyDeleteThey each made one.
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ReplyDeleteSo I'm the last Cadette in my troop who still needs to hosts a badge, and this is perfect! My question is how many meetings will this take? Could it be done in no more then two?
ReplyDeleteSo awesome you want to host a badge meeting! We completed this badge in 1 meeting... BUT... our meetings were 2 1/2 hours long. So, you'll have to adjust based on your meeting length.
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