Halloween Book Spines Free Printables
To make my bookcase look a little more authentic for the upcoming season, I wanted to create an illusion of having some witch or wizard themed books instead of the regular ones on gardening and nature.
You can get printable book covers but I only needed something to quickly cover the spines of a selection of books which are out on show. Included are some free, printable Halloween book spines for you to use for your own decorations this Fall season.
I came up with a set of 10 fun themed titles which you can print off and use for your own decorations. This post contains the freebies for printing as well as a quick how to on getting the look.
Note: This post may contain affiliate links for which I can be compensated.
What You Need to Make Your Halloween Book Spines - Tools and Materials
Image Credit: photo belongs to the author.
First print out the free pages. In most cases, you'll probably want to print them in portrait or tall mode which sizes them a bit smaller to suit most regular books.
If you have some really large books then try printing them on landscape orientation or wide which makes the "labels" a lot larger. Your print options normally give you ways of reducing or enlarging the print size in addition to these options.
Other books have been covered over with dark netting fabrics just so they blend into the background and are not so noticeable. There are lots of tricks you can employ to cover up items you don't want on show, including placing objects like candles and potion bottles and jars in front of them.
Image Credit: photo belongs to the author.
You need a roll of paper to quickly cut and wrap around your chosen books. I went with plain brown paper for a very simple, clean and uniform look.
Plain black would work well or you could choose a range of patterned papers. Whatever look you go for, a large roll of paper works best and will wrap books both large and small.
To wrap, I measured the height of each book with a ruler then marked out this measurement across the roll of paper and cut.
Once cut to size, I wrapped it around the book just like a regular dust jacket and secured on the inside with some low tack masking tape to keep it in place.
Image Credit: photo belongs to the author.
Cut out a suitably sized label, apply adhesive to the back with a simple glue pen or glue stick and place down the spine.
If you want a different look, you could print these spine labels onto colored card or paper instead of plain white.
There are lots of ways in which you can change this up to give different looks depending how much time and effort you have to put in.
Image Credit: photo belongs to the author.
I like how quick this was to do and how effective it looks for a group of books on the shelf. I'll be starting to place decorative elements in front of them now we are starting to decorate for Halloween.
I hope you've enjoyed reading my justhalloweencrafts page today, thanks for your visit. Let me know if you make these. Don't forget your free printables below.
This free Halloween book spines printable is for your personal use only. You are welcome to blog about how you've used this freebie along with your own photos providing that you include a link back to this page.
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You can get printable book covers but I only needed something to quickly cover the spines of a selection of books which are out on show. Included are some free, printable Halloween book spines for you to use for your own decorations this Fall season.
I came up with a set of 10 fun themed titles which you can print off and use for your own decorations. This post contains the freebies for printing as well as a quick how to on getting the look.
Note: This post may contain affiliate links for which I can be compensated.
Book Spines Free Printables for Quick and Easy Halloween Decorating
What You Need to Make Your Halloween Book Spines - Tools and Materials
- The books you want to cover
- The free printable spine "labels" in this post
- A roll of paper - I used plain brown
- Some scissors, pencil, ruler and glue stick
Image Credit: photo belongs to the author.
Print off the free images below in this post
First print out the free pages. In most cases, you'll probably want to print them in portrait or tall mode which sizes them a bit smaller to suit most regular books.
If you have some really large books then try printing them on landscape orientation or wide which makes the "labels" a lot larger. Your print options normally give you ways of reducing or enlarging the print size in addition to these options.
🎃 You don't need to cover all your books. I picked out 10 hard cover books which I wanted to change up for the Halloween season. I left my fantasy collection of books as they were since they already fit quite well with the whole look.
Other books have been covered over with dark netting fabrics just so they blend into the background and are not so noticeable. There are lots of tricks you can employ to cover up items you don't want on show, including placing objects like candles and potion bottles and jars in front of them.
Image Credit: photo belongs to the author.
Cover your chosen books with paper, I went for plain brown
You need a roll of paper to quickly cut and wrap around your chosen books. I went with plain brown paper for a very simple, clean and uniform look.
Plain black would work well or you could choose a range of patterned papers. Whatever look you go for, a large roll of paper works best and will wrap books both large and small.
To wrap, I measured the height of each book with a ruler then marked out this measurement across the roll of paper and cut.
Once cut to size, I wrapped it around the book just like a regular dust jacket and secured on the inside with some low tack masking tape to keep it in place.
Image Credit: photo belongs to the author.
Stick a suitable sized label on the side of the book spine
Cut out a suitably sized label, apply adhesive to the back with a simple glue pen or glue stick and place down the spine.
If you want a different look, you could print these spine labels onto colored card or paper instead of plain white.
There are lots of ways in which you can change this up to give different looks depending how much time and effort you have to put in.
Image Credit: photo belongs to the author.
It looks effective when done for a group of books - no need to do the whole shelf
I like how quick this was to do and how effective it looks for a group of books on the shelf. I'll be starting to place decorative elements in front of them now we are starting to decorate for Halloween.
I hope you've enjoyed reading my justhalloweencrafts page today, thanks for your visit. Let me know if you make these. Don't forget your free printables below.
Click on each image to open up the full size which is best for printing and choose "Save As" or "Save Image As" to download it.
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This free Halloween book spines printable is for your personal use only. You are welcome to blog about how you've used this freebie along with your own photos providing that you include a link back to this page.
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Just Halloween Crafts is a site dedicated to my favorite time of year and the whole spook time season that surrounds October 31st. I love to decorate the home with handmade, DIY and crafted items for Halloween as well as make costume accessories and do fun crafting activities. Using papercrafts, sewing with felt, no-sew techniques and more, you can create a wonderful scheme to your decor whether you are going for scary themes or more fun ones with pumpkins and more. Ghosts, witches, wizards and more make for fun crafting sessions. Thanks for leaving me a comment. Comments do not show until I approve them. Marie