I am a bit sad I haven’t had to cover books at all since my daughter has been at school. I did print out fancy name tags and labels but that’s as far as I went….however I do decorate my own and my Mum made me an awesome patchwork notebook cover 🙂

I can’t stop thinking about this topic…the possibilities are endless! I’ll never buy contact again! 🙂

Very creative & such fun, something I would have enjoyed. With a bit of imagination a masterpiece is created, thank you 🙂

looks good but I am so not creative enough to do that. would love some instructions

I hope my kids are content with the slip on book covers. I dread the day I have to use contact!

Love the ideas, can’t wait to try some of them out!

So many lovely ideas… I’m already dreading the wrestle with the contact! I love getting the kids to keep their old birthday cards and cutting out their favourite pictures. We then glue on and contact over with clear.

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  • • donnamcdiarmid replied
    • 23 Jan 2014 , 4:03 pm

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  This year we found some book covers they just slip on, so much easier than contact paper.

if only we had the books already!!

Some lovely techniques. Better than the brown paper i had as a kid.

Loving these ideas, wishing I had my kids books now though so we could get organized and creative. We get them next week when school goes back so don’t even know what we’re covering yet…

such great ideas!! and some would be so cheap to do!

Great and fun ideas for kids

great, fun and colourful ideas

What a great idea to use ribbons tied on the books for bookmarks.

My kids liked to cover their books in good quality Aluminium foil (as they liked Silver books).
We would then cover with contact.
My little sister use to ask Mum to cover her books in chicken paper (Alfoil.)

Some really awesome ideas thanks for sharing it 🙂

great ideas, thanks for sharing

these are just the sweetest ideas thank you for sharing them

I love adding stickers, posters etc to my kids books. I loved it when I went to school and they love adding their favorite pictures and things they find in magazines. Also love the plastic covers as I used to use clear contact over them before.

I have never actually thought to personalise my children’s school books, probably because we don’t know what we need until school has started and then we don’t have time. But I might just have to make some time, with so many fun ideas to try out!