Here are some tips to share with the teens while they are working.

• Acrylic paint will stain clothes. Offer large donated shirts or garbage bag ponchos for them to wear.
• Depending on the thickness of the teens’ pages, suggest that they glue 4-10 pages together, using a glue stick, for a thicker canvas on which to work.
• Rip out 4-10 pages between altered pages so that the book does not expand so much that it will not close.
  
• Dilute acrylic paint with some water before painting the book covers.
• Diluting acrylic paint with water will cause the pages to warp a little bit. This can be a cool effect.
• Use wax paper between the painted pages.
• Use the blow dryers to dry the pages.
• While paint and/or glue is drying, select enhancements for other pages, such as magazine clippings, ribbon, etc.
• Mistakes are easy to fix. Teens can rip the page out, glue something on top, and start again.