I've gone for this one, as it is astonishingly easy. I used to make these with the children (aged 5 to 8) in my Junior Church group - what used to be called 'Sunday School'. We would then add pictures to do with Bible stories or whatever else we were learning at the time.
All you need is a sheet of paper - A4 is good - and a pair of scissors. If all goes well, you should end up with a booklet with 8 pages, one-eighth of the size of your original piece of paper.
Fold your paper exactly in half length ways, creasing it well, open it out and fold it across the other way, again creasing it and opening it out.
Now fold the shorter sides exactly to the middle crease, and opening it out. You can see in the picture that I have drawn dotted lines along all the creases (you don't that!) to show you, and also marked a red line in the centre.
Fold the paper across the middle, and cut along the middle line just where the scissors are. Only cut as far as the next crease, and open it out again, so it looks like the second picture below.
Arrange the creases to match the picture; 'valley' folds at the sides and a 'mountain fold across the top.
Fold in half length ways, and push the LH and RH sides together, making the slit open wide;
Keep pushing, and you will get a star shape.
Hooray! This is your book! Just fold it up and lay it flat;
If you number the pages; Front Cover, 1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6, Back Cover, you can open it out and see how the fit together;
So when I was thinking about making a Christmas Booklet on decorating the Christmas Tree, I knew which pictures had to be upside down;
Good luck! Once you've got the hang of this, it's a good way to entertain the troops over the Christmas Holidays. There's no reason why you shouldn't make a reversible book as the other side of the paper is completely hidden.
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