Paperback Jack-o-lanterns

I finally finished a project that I have been putting off for far too long. I bought some paperback books at Goodwill and turned them into Jack-o-lanterns. I got the idea from one of my magazines, Country Home. The boys had fun helping fold the pages in half, cutting out the faces and gluing on the toppers. You can use any books, but in the spirit of the season, I picked Halloween appropriate books. You just fold the pages in half and then glue the front and back of the book together, so that it fans out in a cylinder shape. We used black construction paper to cut out the faces and the toppers. I couldn't tell how they did the toppers on the site, so I just made it up. I crumpled up a paper to make it look like the stem. We cut out different shaped leaves and glued them around the stem. We also wrapped thin strips of paper around a pencil to make it curly like a vine. I love the way it turned out. I also found a site for a paperback book Christmas Tree(HERE). They have a few more steps, but both are still pretty easy projects...as long as you don't mind newsprint on your fingers!