Make Your Own Zine - Play At Home

Zines come in many shapes and sizes. They can be about anything you like:

stories
art
issues you care about
anything else at all.

Make your own zine with paper and scissors and think about who you'd like to share it with – your friends and family, your school or your local member of parliament or even leave it on the bus for someone to find.

A close up of two hands folding a piece of A4 paper in half.

Grab your piece of paper and fold it in half long ways.

Open it back up and fold it in half, short side to short side.

Once you’ve folded it in half, fold that half in half again.

A piece of paper unfolded with creases indicating 8 sections.

Open your piece of paper back up and you should now have eight segments within the folds.

A piece of A4 paper folder in half with someone cutting along a crease in the centre of the page.

Now you’ve got those segments, fold your piece of paper in half short side to short side. Cut down the centre fold to the middle where the folds meet. Be sure to only cut one folded segment not the whole way through the paper.

A piece of A4 paper with creases representing 8 sections and a cut in the centre of the paper.

You should have a cut in the middle of your paper.

A piece of A4 paper folder over so there is a hole in the middle.

Fold your piece of paper long ways, so the cut is at the top of your fold. Take both ends where the top cut starts and push together to open where you have cut, it should end up looking like a plus symbol once you’ve pushed both ends together.

A piece of paper folded over to make a booklet with pages.

Once you’ve got both ends pushed together you can fold it together into a small 8-page book and you are ready to get those ideas onto the page.

If you are looking for some extra zine idea inspiration, have a look through our zine mind map. It might just help you create your own revolutionary response through the art of zine-making.

Once you've finished your zine, share it with someone. Share it with a friend, family member or leave it on the bus, at school, the zine lounge at MoAD, or your send it to your local government representative.

Whoever it is, let them hear what you have to say. The more voices that are listened to, the more people will understand another’s experiences and the better society will be.