How to Duct Tape Make a Book Cover

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Spice up your book bag with colorfully duct-tape covered textbooks! Follow the steps below to turn a simple brown paper grocery bag into a unique and personalized book cover. Hit the books with style this school year!

Skill Level

Beginner

Directions

Step 1

Textbook

Invisible tape

Brown paper grocery bag

Scissors

Your favorite color(s) of duct tape  (Duck® brand duct tape comes in 20 colors!)

Embellishments of your choice (stick-on gems, stickers, permanent markers, paint, etc.)

Step 2

Cut open the brown paper bag along one seam (from top to bottom) and then cut off the bottom (base) of the bag. Lay it out flat on your work surface.

Step 3

Fold the side of the bag over the front cover of the book.

Step 4

Cover the paper bag book cover with your favorite color of duct tape. 

·         Be sure to pull strips long enough to cover the book from side to side or top to bottom, depending on which direction you choose.

·         The tape should be long enough to wrap around the inside of the book to cover the paper bag flaps, making the cover look seamless. 

·         Be careful not to tape to the inside of the book, as this may cause damage when the cover is removed at the end of the school year.

Step 5

Then, get creative! Use multiple colors to create unique patterns or add your favorite embellishments. It’s easy to write on duct tape, too!

 

*Create a covered notebook to match.  Simply cover your notebook with the same pattern as your book cover. 

Step 6

Put the book in the middle of the bag to measure.

Step 7

Fold the paper up along the top and bottom of the book. Cut slits in the bag at the binding of the book to make it easy to fold.

Step 8

Repeat step four with the other side of the book. Hint: If you need to, use small pieces of invisible tape to make the paper bag cover stay in place.

Average Rating:

(Based on 55) Rating(s) )


Cool really cool will try it soon 5 stars !

  • ducter
  • Date Added: 12/18/2009 03:09:00

love ie it makes me smile so cute

If you are hard-core you wont use the papper bag. It's not that hard with out the bag, and it is much cooler. Bags are for wimps.

  • Chuck
  • Date Added: 01/03/2010 03:34:00

Uhh Chuck? Bags aren't for wimps. My school book costs seventy-five bucks, so I'm sure as heck not going to put tape all over it

It looks good. It add a little excitment to school

I will have to try this with my books.

thats cool i did that on one of my books and it looks cool!

I like this for school books. Check out my duck tape site!http://ducktapecreators.blastgroups.com/

Can you also do it on reading books for reading????????

  • jbfan12
  • Date Added: 05/16/2010 03:52:00

people love mine sooo much they asked ma to make them some:)

awesomeness!!!! i'm gonna try this with a swirled pattern in my schools colors

so cool can't wait to make one

  • 3jnl
  • Date Added: 07/30/2010 04:43:00

oh man im gonna use this on my crappy school planner they give me hahahaha! everyone will be jealous that mine is all colorful and theirs just says "middle school" :DDDD

This was so cool.

i made 1 very styleish.

awesome! i was just looking for some bookcovers for my text books this year because all of mine ripped last year.

Good idea. I think that it would be cooler to make duck tape fabric with the design on it and form that into a notebook cover instead of using a paper bag. I'm going to try it soon and maybe even give directions. It would be more water-proof and 100% duck tape.

Ohh Dhiss Izz Kewll :) Imm Gonnaa Doo Thiss For My Uqly 10 Pound History Book Lol :D

Those look really cool! There is this dude in my school that made one but it isnt as cool as that one!

Those look really cool! There is this dude in my school that made one but it isnt as cool as that one!

Great idea thats really cool!

  • Sloan98
  • Date Added: 10/27/2010 12:42:00

superr cool! :) five stars!

It looks OK.

it was great

  • axrdml
  • Date Added: 11/17/2010 04:59:00

awesome!

supper cool thanks for the insturctions

AWESSOMMMEE

I NO HOW TO MAKE A BOOK COVER WITHOUT USING PAPER LIKE A LITTLE KID WOULD DO!!!!! ITS EASIER THAN HAVING TO USE A BAG!!!! (IT WILL TAKE MORE DUCT TAPE THO!)

i made one of these for my math book the first day i brought it to school i had at lease 8 people who wanted oneso im just saying this is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sooooo gonna make one!

Use duck tape no paper bags or anything else only duck tape it would be much cooler

  • dillion
  • Date Added: 02/20/2011 02:59:00

use duck tape no paper bags nothing else just duck tape it would be much cooler

  • dillion
  • Date Added: 02/20/2011 03:03:00

hey i'm new to the website and was wondeering how to post more than one instruction

I LOVE DUCK TAPE!!!!!!!!! thats the only thing im asking for, for my birthday!!!!!

this water proofs them and every thing......love it i use to make them out of clear contact paper...plus helped preserve the book covers that had the paper covers on them. Wonderful Idea!

im gonna do this!!! but no paper bag... paper bags are for wimps!!!

AWESOME!!! IM GONNA USE THAT

be a real duct taper dont use paper bag :(

  • kcope93
  • Date Added: 04/05/2011 09:05:00

good idea. i like the way that u can reuse them, and they wont stay there forever. (i get my textbooks from the school, and i have to return them at the end of the year, so my teachers would kill me if i covered it in duck tape) :)

u need 2 use only duct tape

Loved It! Put lots of Bows on it!

very creative!-making some now

  • mellypoo
  • Date Added: 06/04/2011 11:47:00

very creative!!! i like it :P

There is actually an easier way to do this! All you do is just get a book sock and put the duck tape on that or just put the duck tape on the book.. anyways, it's a great idea! :)

That's really nice 'cause they look coolio and I would either kill the book or not be able to tell the difference without them!!!

I totally agree with dantheninja! This is so cool i'll use it for the planers they give us! I kinda started the duct tape trend at my school and that will definitely keep it alive! Thank you Duck Brand!!!!!!! :D

ya i started the trend at my school too!!!! i LUV this idea SOOOOOO using it!!!

cant wait to go school shoping

Sounds cool.I will have to try it soon.Especally since school is coming up.

Oh cool, I was scanning through the instructions and I was really confused with the brown paper bag part and suff, but then I realized that my mom did that for a couple of my books last year, and that all you have to do is cover it with duck tape, so now I'm really excited to try it.

i love it!!!

  • QueenDT
  • Date Added: 08/20/2011 10:59:00

i love the idea. i cant wait till i get my textbooks

  • djman15
  • Date Added: 08/22/2011 02:00:00

I love my duck tape and I needed a book cover so I did this as a way to display my duck tape art at school and I loved how it looked! Thanks so much DUCK BRAND!

  • cmanni99
  • Date Added: 09/16/2011 02:53:00

5 stars!!!!!!!! I think this is an awesome idea and it so cool that you tought of it!!!!!! Your very smart!!! Im gonna make one bcuz this just rox the sox off my friends!!!

i love the idea but i think you should just use duck tape

this looked a little complicated at first but once i got the hang of it , it was really easy. FUN!!

  • syd622
  • Date Added: 10/22/2011 10:23:00

cool im gonna try!

Sweet, all my book covers did not fit my books great idea

  • ekt2000
  • Date Added: 11/08/2011 09:45:00

COOL Im gonna try it!

  • 16aakers
  • Date Added: 11/15/2011 09:57:00

I love the idea! And I AM going to use a PAPER BAG! So I don't care if some people are going to be jerks because I don't want to ruin my books!

Just want to say I just found out about this site today, and back when I was in 7th grade I thought of this idea, and made it with just duct tape and nothing else, now I'm in 10th grade and still using the cover, right now for my math book lol. If you make a duct tape book cover in 6th grade it will last you till you graduate.....most likely

At first, my pre-algebra book was just covered in a paper bag... now i'm trying this! :)

  • Moe0717
  • Date Added: 12/03/2011 09:38:00

this is a great way to protect your books and make them not soo boring at the same time. all my friends at school saw the folders i made out of duck tape and are all asking for them so now im making them for christmas, i'll have to throw this idea in somehow to

  • sgott
  • Date Added: 12/12/2011 07:51:00

great way to make your book look cool

  • catlover
  • Date Added: 12/30/2011 09:18:00

i hate school

This is great I love the idea I'm using this next semester

That's a really good idea!!!

THIS IS AWESOME! i got alot of compliments at school. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!

  • bart
  • Date Added: 02/07/2012 07:47:00

my friend made a multicolor 1 & EVERY1 in our class absolutely <3s it!! :D

i love it! now my books wont get wrecked in my backpack!

I made some out of just duck tape. You take two pieces of duck tape "fabric" the size of the front and back of your book, connect them at the spine (sticky side to sticky side) and then create the flaps to keep it on the book. It's not hard, only takes me 15 minutes, and the tape doesn't stick to the book! I like it a lot better than the bag idea

cool! I like it

My sunday school teacher did this with us 4 our bibles. The paper bag part looks hard but it is actually pretty easy.(plus using abag uses less duct tape so u can make more with less roles:)But u can cover the sticky part with packing tape if u don't have a bag.

  • ESC
  • Date Added: 03/12/2012 03:09:00

Awesome!!!!!!!!

luv it!!!

Haven't tried yet, but looks awesome!! Can't wait....

  • jasmine1
  • Date Added: 04/15/2012 02:35:00

seems easy i have to do this next year since I'm gonna have like a million pounds of book to carry so might as well carry a million pounds of stylish book!!!!!!

Awsome will try it soon 5 stars!!!!

I'm going into 5th grade and need a book cover how about one I design

  • ductcat
  • Date Added: 05/30/2012 12:57:00

umm, doubled26? bags arent for babies the more duct tape yo lose the less u have 4 other crafts so buck up and use a bag

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