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How To Print Your Own Book At Home – I recently picked up a new hobby: making my own board games! I have some self-taught experience with graphic design (as Science with Me. Lau readers already know) and recently tried my hand at creating a new card game for my kids. My 9 year old son and I discussed and created a “GoldFish” version of the Go-Fish! We recently had some fun reading and researching goldfish breeds and made-up types (did you know today’s goldfish have 100 chromosomes and are allotetraploid??!) and that’s where we got our inspiration.
On this journey of goldfish cards I learned a few things about making cards at home. Here is the process I used to print and physically prepare them, and I think many teachers can use this process to print and prepare their own cards from home.
How To Print Your Own Book At Home
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I’m including Amazon affiliate links to the tools I use in this post because I know you’ll want to know and ask me what I used. If you click the link and buy the tool, I get a few cents, which I will no doubt save in my Amazon account to use to buy board games for my kids.
Should You Print Your Photographs At Home?
1. I printed the front of my cards on white cardstock. I have found that when I tell my printer (HP8720) to print more than one page at a time, it “errors” and the pages stick together and do not print correctly. So I recommend printing one page at a time.
2. I do NOT print the backs of card games to the same beat. I find that it’s just not worth it to line up a printed pattern or the back of a card at home with my printer. It never prints correctly so that the back is exactly lined up with the front no matter what setting the printer I try (and I’ve tried several different ways). It also uses a TOON ink to print various card backs. So I decided to use colored paper I already had on the shelf as the back. I will glue the colored paper (I have the glue I had on hand – glue stick glue) to the ruler, which will create a card with a goldfish on the front and a colored back.
3. I could have stopped here and cut them out and left it there. However, I wanted to make sure the cards would last when playing with my 9 and 5 year olds, so I decided to laminate them. I have this laminator (I see Amazon deals on this one a lot) and I put it in this laminator case. I ran it through the laminator three times on the “5 mil” setting to really make sure the plastic stuck to the front and back of the card because I didn’t leave a plastic border around it when I not cut out. The plastic is really meant to keep the front and back shiny and secure, not necessarily covered sides.
4. I then used a paper cutter to cut out the cards for the cut marks I made when I created them digitally on the computer. I really like this paper cutter because it has a guide wire that helps you see exactly where it will cut before you slide the blade down the frame. It’s also much safer to leave at home than my other giant paper cutter…
Planner Setup: Printing, Binding, And Organizing
5. Then, to make it look even more fancy and like real deck cards, I used rounded corners. This corner cutter has three options you can use to round off the corners and for my goldfish cards I used the largest round corner option. On my organelle maps below, I used the round the smallest angles option.
I like to organize the card sets I make in these plastic photo boxes I have laying around from another project.
I was so excited about the result of our goldfish cards that I posted about them on Instagram to share my joy about our creation, and the teacher asked if I could make a set of organelles. I took that idea and ran with it this weekend. You can find the organelle deck here on TPT for $4.99.
The organelle card game includes instructions on how to play 4 different game variations: Memory Matching, Old Maid, Go-Fish and Crazy-Eights. I have attached a printable instruction page for each game that you can give to a pair or group of students playing the game.
Digital Diy Print Your Own 1 8×10 Vikings Hammer Ship
So, if you had a card game for your classroom or for your own kids at home, what would you put on your own card game deck?
(I know in times of COVID you may not be able to play this game with pairs or student groups yet, but for now you can have students create an individual memory station!)
Interested in more science classroom games? I also have a chemistry bingo set that I love!
Hi! I am Bethany Lau, the mastermind of science with mrs. Lau, an independent science curriculum company specializing in illustrated resources for high school science teachers. Q: I like to do anything creative. Whether I’m writing or painting, I’m very happy in the network of creativity. More about mrleanna »
You Can Now 3d Print Your Own Valve Steam Deck At Home
Have you ever written an entire book, novel or even a series of them and then printed them out via computer? After you do that, where did your pile of paper go? Did you put it in a folder, add a giant paperclip or stapler, or did the pile just end up in the corner of your room?
I’ve included an easy way to bind books that won’t cost you an arm and a leg. This process only takes about five minutes and can definitely improve the way you store your own books.
Print the book on A4 paper. You can buy a 96-page pack of staples for as little as $10.29 each. It might be better to get the thicker 24 pound pages (the one we talked about earlier is 20 pounds) so the ink doesn’t bleed through. If you want a smaller book, cut 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper in half. The size of the pages does not change the process.
Wet the spine with water using a cotton ball. Make sure the spine is damp before using a cotton swab to apply Gorilla Glue. Allow to dry. While it is drying, squeeze out the packaging or make sure it is ready to use. It can be printed on a legal size heavy card stock.
Sears Christmas Book
Now it’s time to add the cover. Before binding, fold the edges of the envelope so that it is not difficult to fold the envelope around the edges. When the glue dries on the edges, remove the heavy book, or in this case the binder, and add the cover. Add some water and apply the glue on the back. Repeat folding the cover over the pages and pin it back to dry.
Now your book is bound and ready to go. You can be creative with the covers by using different fonts or colors or whatever you want. You can even create a journal and draw on the front page. Whatever you decide to do, enjoy it and make it personal.
Miscelleana Rhinehart is a book lover and enjoys writing books when she is not writing online ads for Toyota used car dealers or producing her own books. When we talk about how to create a book in 2023, we often talk about exporting files to Kindles. and other e-book readers. But what about the old-fashioned art of making a book by hand? Some say bookbinding is a dying art – but we think it’s coming back.
In this post, we will show you how to create a beautiful book. Not just any blank volume, but a beautiful novel, memoir or non-fiction – professionally formatted and hardbound. And the best part is, it shouldn’t cost you more than fifteen or twenty dollars!
Block Printing Basics
So if you’ve written fiction or non-fiction and want to know how to make a copy to give to someone special (or to keep as a souvenir), simply follow the steps below. Or, if you want to create a blank notebook, you can skip straight to step four.
Here we plant your book of your choice digitally and arrange the pages so that we can bind it seamlessly. There are several pieces of software that allow you to plant a book. However, we recommend that you use Reedsy Book Editor for three reasons:
It happened to be created by our team at Reedsy – but that’s why we know it would be one of the best tools for the job, even if it wasn’t free.
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