Design your own book! Combine Crayola Texture It! Tempera Mixing Medium and Crayola Twistables® to make memorable 3-D rubbings for your illustrations.
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Draft an original story with Crayola Erasable Colored Pencils. After it has been edited, there are many more decisions to make! Choose which characters or scenes you want to illustrate. Pick a page size for your book. Then decide whether you would like to make textured crayon rubbings for the background or the characters.
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With Crayola Scissors, cut a recycled file folder into the same size as your book page. Sketch your characters (or the background) on the file folder. If you change your mind, just erase. Concentrate only on the basic shapes. Leave empty spaces between them. This will become your rubbing template to make your story pages.
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Cover your art area with newspaper. Use Crayola Texture It! Tempera Mixing Medium and paint brushes to fill your shapes. Dab the medium thickly inside the shape. Air-dry the medium overnight.
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Fold or cut construction paper for the inside pages of your book. Write the words that go on each page, leaving plenty of space for your illustrations.
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Lay the first page of your story on your rubbing template. Use Crayola Twistables® to color over each shape. Use closely related colors within the shape to add shading and highlights. Press harder as you go over the edges so the shapes really stand out. T
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Make more rubbings as you need them to illustrate all of the other pages. Vary their position, the colors, and other details so each page is unique.
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Finish illustrating your story pages with Crayola Pip-Squeaks Markers. Add details to the background and characters. When you use marker over crayon, you’re doing crayon resist, too!
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Design covers for your book with oak tag. Hold the pages in place between the covers. Punch holes for the binding. Loop yarn through the holes and tie. Read your books to each other, younger children, and your families.
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