Make a Sketchbook, Ideas Book or Travel Journal this Summer!

By Sheila Ceccarelli

We’ve had a wonderful few weeks running insets and workshops in schools and summer is definitely in the air!

Teachers at Garden Fields JMI School in St Albans make sketchbooks
Teachers at Garden Fields JMI School in St Albans making sketchbooks

 

This week teachers at Garden Fields JMC, St Albans worked with AccessArt exploring the potential of sketchbooks as personalised learning tools and teenagers from AccessArt’s Experimental Drawing Class worked during their final session this term, on making their own books for summer ideas (and delightfully their parents joined in at the end of the session and made their own books too).

Teenager ready for summer ideas and drawings with her own (thick!) hand-made sketchbook with AccessArt's Experimental Drawing Class
Teenager ready for summer ideas and drawings with her own (thick!) hand-made sketchbook with AccessArt’s Experimental Drawing Class

 

AccessArt would like to encourage you to be inspired and have a go. These sketchbooks were all ‘rough and ready’ and did not depend on great book making skills or even much time to achieve fun and highly personalised results.


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Simple Elastic Band Sketchbook

Simple Elastic Band Sketchbook

Japanese Book Binding

Japanese Book Binding

Simple Hole Punch Sketchbook

Simple Hole Punch Sketchbook

Simple Sewn Sketchbook

Simple Sewn Sketchbook

Many thanks for teenagers at AccessArt’s Experimental Drawing Class and their parents as well as teachers from Garden Fields JMI School, St Albans for inspiring this post.

Happy sketchbooking and have a wonderful summer!


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