Re- Project #4: Portfolio Scrapbook

In the school where I teach all students from grade 1-6 get a portfolio every semester. This portfolio showcase their academic progress in every subject in school. An average portfolio has about 40 pages of worksheets, reviews, artworks, photos. So by the end of primary years a child will end up with 12 portfolios or 480 pages. 

Parents what do you do with this portfolio? Do you have them somewhere collecting dust somewhere on a book shelve? Do you throw them away after you run out of shelves?

If you love scrapbook but don't have a budget for fancy paper, pages of portfolio are excellent for scrapbook pages for your child.  It's personal, it's one of a kind, and it's earth-friendly. If  your child doesn't have a portfolio save worksheets, drawings, doodles, artworks, pages from notebooks, letters from school etc. 

You need:
Pages from portfolio
An Awl
A piece of cardboard
Needle craft
Wax/craft Thread
Graph paper
Pencil

Steps:

1. Fold a group of papers in half. In bookbinding terms this is called signature. 
2. Continue folding until you have some signatures.
3. For the cover choose your favorite page, cut in half & have them laminated.
4. Mark 6 points on a graph paper about 3 cm apart. Open a signature, place the graph paper in the middle. Put a cardboard underneath. Use an awl to punch a hole through the signature on each point on the graph paper. Repeat for all signatures. For the cover leave a space about 1cm from the edge.
5. Use coptic stitch technique to bind the book. Click here to watch a tutorial from Jim Escalante