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Person Painting an Altered Book

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.


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