#book arts for teens

[welcome-to-craftyland]

mini accordion books!

Accordion books (or concerta books) are books constructed without staples or stitching, made out of a long continuous piece of paper folded zig-zag into a book. A few ideas for the inside of your book: draw a really long wiener dog! Use it as a home for your most precious sticker collection. Illustrate all your dream slushie flavors. Make a list of bugs!

Use a knife and a ruler to cut a long strip of paper.  

Fold the paper into a zigzag, I always like to use a metal ruler to make tiny pencil marks on the top and bottom every 11/2 or so inches. Fold the paper using a bone folder. Cut the excess with your craft knife.  

Cut out two pieces of cardboard for the cover. I just used a box from some crackers, and made the covers the same size as the front and back of the book.   

Using some white craft glue, brush glue onto the book covers and stick them to the paper, setting beneath some heavy books on top until it dries. I put some wax paper around my little book so I wouldn’t get glue on anything. Let dry completely before using!

Supplies: - Paper - Metal ruler - Craft knife - Cracker box from the recycling - White glue

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[iblamenabil]

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the god made for fun"

- Alan W. Watts -

[arcadebroke]

link

[clarissasbakery]

yuri time 🫶🫶🫶 happy pride

[koobiie]

cyborgs!!!!!!!!!

bonus bb and chopper -

[emmakubert]

We need justice for Terra!!! 💛💛💛

[weaverofink]

a 12-year-old cassie, reading percy jackson for the first time: it’s just like my life

[weclassybouquetfun]

Comic books are pop culture staples, but I love when they do nods to other pop culture staples like other media . Case in point, some of the DC Comics nods to:

MEMES

MOVIES

[karahuset]

Made a Tim Drake Nightwing concept after Tom King tweeted about his pitch for a story about this happening

[koryandr]

I’ve reread twilight for the first time since I was 12 and i hate how much I let society make me hate it because I genuinely love them 😭

[suis0u]

And another Stiles.

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[jkparkin]

Titans #19 (DC, January 2025) variant cover by Karl Kerschl

[ghostwithstrawberries]

Teenage Dipper and Mabel Pines

Since it's October I've been rewatching the show and I always forget how amazing it is.

Total time: 9 hours and 52 minutes

-SCB

[dailydccomics]

Starfire by Dan Mora