How To Make A Paper Bag Book

In today’s how to make a paper bag book, I’ll show you an easy and super satisfying way to reuse those grocery store brown paper bags.

This Sunday was Earth Day, and here is my eco-conscious, recycled craft project for it. I used a simple Book Making with String method. Let me ask you, have you ever ironed out your grocery bags?

how to make a paper bag book

I had the concept in my mind, a step by step idea of how I had planned to make these, but the actual outcome was SO much prettier than I had expected 🙂

1. Cut off the handles, and then cut open each brown paper bag to make a long rectangle
2. Iron out used brown paper bags to remove all the creases.
3. Trim the ironed paper to size. I made three books here, of three different sizes
4. Drill holes along the book egde
5. Join and bind the book pages together. I bound everything into a few books using colored twine, some decorative buttons, and jute twine.

I made this brown paper bag craft, using bags from our local grocery store Target. You can find my the step by step photo tutorial for this on the Fiskars blog here.

paper bag books

Have you made paper bag books ever? There is something very satisfying in turning one’s own pages into a book. I had a lot of fun putting this how to make a paper bag book tutorial together.

Check out DIY book making ideas on my blog like this cereal box notebook, or how to make a book with paper and glue. Happy Earth Day!