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DLTK's Make Your Own Books - Growing Together
Five Little Pumpkins

spacer The mini-books are quite simple with images that should appeal to young children and a simple, familiar poem that children in Preschool thru Grade 2 should be able to read themselves after hearing it a time or two.

Feel free to make as many copies as you need (just don't sell them as they're meant to be free for all to use. *grin*).

Use our Five Little Pumpkin Felt Board Characters or our Five Little Pumpkins single sheet poem to complement the mini book.

Materials:

  • printer
  • paper (you can use a slightly heavier paper for a longer lasting book)
  • stapler
  • something to color with (if using B&W template)

Directions:

  • Print template of choice.  The B&W version is fun for young children to color in or for older children to color as gifts for younger ones.  I like printing a color cover and B&W pages.
      
  • Color the template pieces if you are doing the B&W version.
      
NUMBERED PAGES:
  • If you imagine a 'real' book for a second, you know that each page has printing on the front and the back.  We're going to fold the pages to make it like a real book.
      
    • Ignore the cover for now.
        
    • Fold each page along the center dotted line so the images are on the OUTSIDE and the blank sides of the paper are on the inside (imagine you're making a greeting card).  
        
    • You can use a glue stick, if you like, to glue the pages together (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE COVER!)
          
  • Stack the pages, so the odd numbers are on top and the folded edges are lined up.  Trim with scissors or paper cutter if needed.
      

COVER PAGE:

  • Fold the cover page along the dotted line, again with the images on the outside.
      
  • OPTIONAL:  You can laminate the cover page or print it on cardstock if you want it to be more like a real book's cover.
      

ASSEMBLE THE BOOK:

  • Open the cover page (like a folder) and slip the pages inside so that when you open the cover you'll see page 1 -- the unfolded edges of the pages will go against the folded part of the cover.  
      
  • Close the cover page and tap the book so everything lines up.
      
  • Put three or four staples along the edge to hold the book together.
      
  • Trim again, if needed.
      
  • Flip through the book once, carefully folding the pages to make the book easier for the children to read.
      

PRINTING THE TEMPLATES

  • Close the template window after printing to return to this screen. 
       
  • Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers). 
      
  • There'll be less trimming to do if you also turn off the headers and footers.
 Photos aren't for the 
halloween book, but the 
system works the same.

 

 

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Fold with pictures out and trim if necessary

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stack with odd 
numbers on top

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staple

 

 

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enjoy!

  

Mini Book Templates:

Page 1 and 2   (color)   (B&W)

Page 3 and 4   (color)   (B&W)

Page 5 and 6   (color)   (B&W)

Page 7 and 8   (color)   (B&W)

COVER   (color)   (B&W)

 

 

  

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