You will need:
- Faux Fur Fabric (You can buy it by the yard at the craft store)
- a notebook (not spiral bound)
- hot glue
- 2 flat marbles
- felt in red and white
- scissors
- orange paper
- a black marker
- mod podge
Lay your notebook open on your faux fur and cut the fur to your specific notebook. The faux fur should cover most of the inside of the journal’s front and back inside cover. the fur should only hang over the top and bottom of the book about half an inch.
After you have your fur cut to your book, Use hot glue to glue the fur to the front of the book and to the inside covers of the notebook. Add a line of hot glue to the half inch that over laps the edges and push them together.
Cut a tongue out of red felt and teeth out of white. Glue them on the inside flap of the book. The tongue behind the teeth.
Trace your flat marbles onto your orange paper. Cut the circles out and add pupils with a black marker. Use Mod Podge to secure the paper to the back of the flat marbles. Once the marbles are completely dry, glue them to the front cover of your book as the eyes.
My 7-year-old is absolutely thrilled with the way her journal turned out and I am too! We already have plans to make more!
Who would you make a monster book for?
Faux Fur Fabric
Flat Marbles
Felt in Various Colors
This is adorable. I love Harry Potter and I LOVE notebooks. I need to make this!
This is the coolest! My cousins love harry potter and I know they would think these are awesome! I just want to do this to all my books now haha
This DIY is so fabulous – and I dont even read Harry Potter! I mean, it could be for that series, but could be for the season or or anything! Its just cute!
I am not a HP fan and I love this! It would make a great gift too!
What a fun idea! Super cute.
And I love the idea of using flat marbles for eyes. It really makes the book cover come to life!
I love Harry Potter. That monster book is adorable! I want to make this with the twins.
I have never watched the movies or read any of the books, but this adorable! My son would love this.
This is brilliant! My kids don't know who Harry Potter is yet, but this will still be something they love!
It just dawned on me that this is another JK Rawling book/movie. It looks so good! I need to go catch the flick and then do this with my son. I bet he'd find it fun!
I have so many Harry Potter lovers in my family so this is a great gift idea! I love DIY projects so I can't wait to get started on this one!
I know someone who would love this, I just forwarded it to her. Thanks. Ron
That is such a fun idea! You could even do a whole bunch of them for a child's birthday party for fun take home gifts!
This is amazing! My kids and I just started reading the Harry Potter books during school every day. They love it! They've been running around my house all week doing spells. They would love this!
Oh gosh how cool is that!!! I love it! Harry Potter is my favorite book collection!!!!! I learned to read off of those books!
This is so adorable! We love all things Harry Potter! I'm going to be making this for my three littles for Christmas!
This is amazing! It would work perfectly with my Hermione Granger costume, thank you.
That is amazing and super cool. My daughter is totally going to want one after I show her this post! 🙂
I think this is an amazing thing to do! I really appreciate your crafts that are related to HP! I love Harry Potter and it would be cool to be able to DIY some of the things that would remind me of the books and the movies!
How cute is this? My oldest niece is going to love it, she is a huge fan.
oh my goodness, this looks SO cute!!!! I want one for myself now!