AccessArt has advocated for using sketchbooks as a tool to nurture creativity for many years. Sketchbooks are the perfect tool to explore ideas, experiment and reflect. Making sketchbooks instead of buying them is a great way to give the maker of the sketchbook a sense of ownership and feel they have a safe space where they can succeed, fail, try and discover, free of judgement, enabling them to own their journey.

In this resource, you’ll be shown two simple ways of making a sketchbook from easy access recycled materials.

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