How wonderful your study table will look with your own crafted book organiser! And that too with materials easily available in your house.

For this book organiser, you have to draw the word ‘Book’ vertically. ‘B and O’ will make one pair, while ‘O and K’ will be another. And you have to draw both pairs in doubles as one ‘B and O’ will come over another, but not directly. Instead it will come over one-inch wide hardboard pieces placed between both pairs. This will give a rather nice look to the craft.

Without going into much detail, let’s start making this book organiser.

Things you need:

1. Hardboard, you can flatten any cardboard box. You should have four 12-inch length and 5-inch wide pieces.

2. Coloured papers/wrapping paper or old newspaper (you can use any of these).

3. Pencil

4. 12-inch ruler

5. White glue/hot glue

6. Scissors or paper cutter

7. Paper tape

8. Empty shoebox

Directions:

1. Draw 10-inch line with a pencil on one of the flattened hardboard piece. Picture 2.

2. Draw letter ‘B’ till you reach 5 inches; then draw ‘O’ on the remaining five inches. Picture 3.

(Note: the width of each letter has to be 3.5 inches.)

1. Take another piece of hardboard, draw a 10-inch line, and then draw letter ‘O’ first, then the letter ‘K’. You will get the desired shape after several attempts, so don’t worry about it. All four letters have to be 5-inch lengthwise and 3.5 widthwise; see picture 4.

2. Repeat the steps from 1 to 3 to get two sets of each pair of letters.

3. Now you need the help of an adult to cut the letters out; see pictures 5 and 6.

4. Cut the two-inch length and one-inch width pieces of hardboard from the scraps you are left with, picture 7. (You will need around 15 for both letters)

5. Take one piece at a time, and carefully glue one edge of the hardboard piece and stick it to the pair of letters; as in pictures 8 and 9.

6. Take the similar pair of letter and glue it on top of the one you were making with little stands, see picture 10.

7. Now cover the centre between both letters with paper tape as in pictures 11 and 12.

8. Paste anything on the pairs of letter, coloured papers, newspaper, etc. I used green coloured paper. Picture 13.

9. To highlight the letters, you can outline them in a paper of contrasting colour. I used printed wrapping paper. See picture 14. Leave it to dry.

10. Take the shoebox and cut from the right and the left corner as in pictures 15 and 16.

11. Paste one pair letters ‘B and O’ on the left side of the shoebox, (hot glue works better) and ‘O’ and ‘K’ on the right side. Picture 17.

Your book organiser is ready.

Published in Dawn, Young World September 2nd, 2017