Mini Notebook

A 2⅛ × 2¾ in mini notebook from half a Letter sheet: the sheet is folded into eight panels, cut once and put together without glue. The cover is drawn with markers on the finished notebook: flowers, a black spine and a name label.

• Easy
• 1 half a Letter sheet
• 6 pages
• 1 cut
• 0 glue

Make it with your phone cameraLesson code: 6268

On VanGami the template appears over your sheet through your phone camera — no printer needed. Trace it, cut, fold and glue. Below are all the steps in text.

What you’ll need

• Letter sheet — office paper, 80 gsm (20 lb)
• Markers
• Pencil — and eraser
• Scissors — small
• Glass — phone stand

Steps

Sheet

1. Fold the sheet in half. Fold the Letter sheet in half, short edge to short edge. Crease the fold with your fingernail and unfold.
2. Cut along the fold. Cut the sheet along the fold. One half is for the notebook; set the other aside: it will make another one.

Fold

3. Fold in half lengthwise. Fold the half lengthwise: long edge to long edge. Crease the fold and unfold.
4. Fold in half crosswise. Now crosswise: short edge to short edge. Crease it, but don’t unfold it.
5. And crosswise once more. Fold it once more in the same direction: bring the fold to the open edges. Crease it, bend that fold the other way, then open it back up — the sheet stays folded in half.
6. Cut to the middle. Cut from the folded edge along the fold that runs into it, up to the fold you just made: exactly to the middle, no farther. Cut both layers at once.
7. Unfold the sheet. Unfold the whole sheet. It has eight panels, with a slit two panels long in the middle.
8. Fold lengthwise. Fold the sheet lengthwise again along the first fold and stand it on its edge, fold up. The slit is now on the fold.
9. Push the ends together. Hold the strip by the ends and push them toward each other: the slit opens into a diamond. Push all the way and you get a little cross of four leaves.
10. Fold it into a book. Fold the leaves of the cross in one direction, like the pages of a book. Lay the notebook down and crease the spine with your fingernail.

Cover

11. Notebook under the camera. Put the notebook under the camera with the spine on the left — that’s the edge where all the leaves are joined. Unlock the template, use two fingers to fit the frame to the notebook edge to edge, then lock it again.
12. Pencil drawing. Trace the stripe along the spine, the name label with three lines and the five flowers above it. Between the flowers go dots; they don’t need to be exact.

Color

13. With markers. Petals and dots in pink, centers in yellow. Color the spine black and outline the flowers and the name label with it too.

Back

14. Back cover. Turn the notebook over and draw the same flowers and dots on the back — freehand, as many as fit. Along the spine, a black stripe.
15. Write your name. Turn it back over and write your name on the lines of the name label. Inside are six pages: write the first entry on them.

Done. The notebook is done. The other half of the sheet makes another one — with a different pattern or in a different color.

Make it with your phone camera

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