Making our own Sketchbooks

8th graders have been busy since the school year started!  In the process of building our classroom community, we designed and decorated covers and learned how to bind our sketchbooks using a Japanese 4-hole book binding process.  Covers were decorated using a variety of media and students were given complete freedom in the design.  We then covered cereal box cardboard with our covers and holes were drilled.  We followed the binding process together as a group.  Some students needed the next day to finish, but I think they all turned out amazing!  Students were also really interested in the process and surprised themselves with their results!