Week 2 Activity: Create a Camp Long Haul Zine
+ Giveaway entry details
Welcome to Wednesday in the Craft Shack! Friend and honorary camp counselor Hayley Gilmore has created something for us: the official Camp Long Haul One-Page Zine Template!
A zine (pronounced “zeen”) is a self-published, small-circulation booklet or magazine. They’ve been vital tools for disability activism over the years, because they allow for creativity and the ability to share lived experience, marginalized voices, and uncensored personal stories without the constraints of traditional publishing. The template Hayley made for us is based on a legendary template by artist Kate Bingaman-Burt, and you can learn more about it in her Substack post, Let’s Make a Zine! You take a single piece of paper, make a few folds, cut a tiny slit, and it folds down into a pocket-sized 8-page book.
Click here to go to my Google Drive and download the templates.
Week 2 Activity: Start Your Camp Diary or Zine
Hayley’s printable one-page starter zine has a few simple questions about your summer experience so far. This can be an introduction to making your own camp diary or summer zine. Through the rest of camp, I’ll drop optional prompts so you can keep adding to your mini camp library.
Choose Your Own Low-Spoon Adventure
Old-School Analog: Download Hayley’s template, print it out, and fill out the prompts using pens, markers, crayons, or whatever you have. The follow the quick printing guide.
Digital Route (Zero Cleanup): Download the image and upload it to Canva or another editing app you like. Type or doodle your answers from your nest.
Fully Freehand: Don’t have a printer? Grab a piece of scrap paper, fold it up using Kate’s classic method, and create your own entirely from scratch.
Low on Spoons Today? If printing and folding are too much for your body today, don’t force it. You can screenshot the template and fill it out digitally on your screen, or just close your eyes and answer the prompts in your mind while you rest. Mental crafting is crafting!
Enter the Weekly Giveaway!
I’m giving away a piece of official camp swag to one lucky winner during Friday’s Campfire chat, but you don’t have to attend to win. To enter:
Leave a comment on this post sharing a low-energy craft tool, app, or spoon-saving tip that helps you in life, or
Share a picture of your completed zine, tag me here or on Instagram, and use #camplonghaul for a bonus entry!
Bonus Bonus Entry: tag a friend in these posts!
How to Fold Your One-Page Zine
If you haven’t made one of these before, don’t panic. I am not a great folder, but I managed it by watching Hayley’s instructional video, posted on Instagram.
More Info on Zines and Activism
A Brief History of Zines in the US from Purdue University
Politicizing Disability Through Zines
Disability Justice: A Reader’s Guide: Zines from Barnard College
Resistance and Self-Discovery Through Zines by Jen White-Johnson
In Zines, LGBTQ Creators Find a Place to Tell Their Own Stories via PBS News
Hi everyone-where actually is Hayley’s zine template please?