DIY Book Clock

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It’s been a decade since I made one of my favorite book crafts!

So since Roger is in the midst of building us a tiny library I thought it was time to make a new DIY Book Clock. (You can find my first one here.)

For now, it will sit on our living room built-ins, but hopefully, by this fall, it will have a permanent spot in our new library!

While I know book crafts can be controversial, I should note that I use old books that have been discarded or are being thrown out for my book crafts.

We live near a used bookstore with a free bin out front. This has always been my favorite place to find books for crafts.

And I can’t wait to share more book crafts over the coming years that I plan to use to decorate our library for different seasons!

ps. Don’t worry, I didn’t throw away those scrap pages I cut out; I have another DIY planned for them!

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Materials:

Old Book

Ruler

Fine Point Permanent Marker

Clock Parts & Battery

Exacto Knife

Clock Numbers

E6000 Glue

Instructions:

1. First, use a ruler to find the center of the book and mark it with a dot using your permanent marker. Picture 1

2. Place the hour hand over the dot and trace a circle around the center. Picture 2

3. Cut out the circle on the cover using an Exacto knife and make sure the clock parts fit through the hole. Pictures 3-4

4. Open up the cover, place the clock battery base in the center, and trace around it with your maker.
To find the exact center on the first page, I flipped the clock battery base upside down so that the white part that sticks through the book cover is inside the circle indentation on the first page, from where I cut out the hole in the cover. I then marked a dot in each corner on the page, then flipped it over so that it lay flat on the page between the four dots, and then finally traced around it. Picture 5

5. Using your Exacto knife, cut out the traced square over and over again, removing the center pages as you go. Keep doing this until you have a square hole deep enough to fit the clock battery base. Pictures 6-8

6. Next, place the clock battery base inside the book and close the cover. Pictures 9-10

7. Then attach the hour hand on the clock and use it as a guide to evenly space your numbers around the clock. Picture 11

8. Once you have the numbers in place on the cover, apply E6000 glue to the back of each number and then firmly press it back on the book cover where you want it. Pictures 12-14

9. Finally, attach the minute and second hands to your new clock.

Enjoy your new DIY Book Clock!

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