Libraries do a lot of crafting! Whether you are looking for some good programs, or some fun staff activity, crafts are an easy and fun strategy.

And if the fun of it isn’t enough, crafting can be a great stress reliever! Check out Making Art Is Good For Your Health. Here’s How To Start A Habit, from NPR, for some encouragement in getting started.

Let’s look at a few things you can try out in your library, or take home and experiment. Try some crafting, take pictures, and tell us all about it!

Check out this blog post on making paper flowers from book pages. You’re in a library – you probably have some weeded books hanging around; crafting your available materials is always going to be a good way to go. She has a video to show the technique, and she gives step by step pictures; so even the least crafty among us (*raising my hand*) can follow it.

How to Make Flowers Out of Paper
Using an Old Book

“Prep Time 5 minutes Active Time 10 minutes Total Time 15 minutes Difficulty Easy Estimated Cost $1

Materials

• Old book
• Bead
• Thread

Tools

• Pencil
• Scissors
• Glue

“Other Ways to Make Paper Flowers and Old Book Crafts:

If this project got you excited to try making more paper flowers, you are in luck. There are so many different ways you can do it!

You can learn how to make a gorgeous DIY paper flower ball, or you can use a free printable template to create an easy paper flower wreath. You can even make colorful flowers out of tissue paper.

And here are three more DIY Paper flowers you can make quickly and easily. You’ll find lots more in our archives. So check out these projects and the other easy DIY paper flowers we have shared!”

Try some library flowers this week! Take pictures and send them to us! Send us a flower or two – we will happily display them all!! Flowers can make every place happier, and book flowers are probably the best type for us!