Today I am going to show you a quick tip that I have done for years. For the last decade or so I have been in a fall and spring bible study. At the beginning of each semester we get a new soft back bible study curriculum. About the time I had babies it became increasingly more difficult to lead a bible study while holding my book, bible and a baby. That is when my mom mentioned spiral binding the book to make it easier. Why didn’t I think of that?
The nice part about a spiral bind is that it lays flat on the table and you can fold the book back on itself as well. Even though I don’t have little babies anymore I still get this done for every study. It just makes it so nice and easy to take notes and fill in the answers.
Anyone else in a fall bible study? What curriculum are you doing?![page break_thumb[1]](http://infarrantlycreative.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/page-break_thumb1.jpg "page break_thumb[1]")
What an awesome idea! I saw the book for Bible study yesterday at church and it would be fun. We do BSF and love it! I want to do this one too but think it might overextended me…Thanks for the great tip!
Great idea- I didn’t realize you could make a hard back book into a spiral bound.
We are doing Precept Upon Precept (Kay Arthur) on Matthew for the entire school year this year. I have the privilege of helping with the teaching! Praise God for wonderful Bible studies that are available to grow us and nurture our souls!
Thanks for the post!
What a great idea! I didn’t know that could be done!
I love this idea! So simple and so useful! I’m in a study right now using the book Captivating by John and Staci Eldridge. Ladies, if you haven’t read that book, I would HIGHLY reccomend it! I’m discovering so much about myself and about how God hard wired us as women. It’s awesome. I’m thinking I should spiral bind the study guide that goes with the book now because those little guide books are a bit tough to keep open and write in. Thanks for this quicky tip Beckie!
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I love that study! So good! Enjoy and I am glad you found the tip useful.
This is a great idea!! Bible study books can be hard to “manipulate” with pens, highlighters, etc. Thanks for sharing, Beckie.
Becky do have to remove the binding before you get it spiraled or do they do it? I was thinking of adding some blank pages between each weeks study for notes…
Oh good call!!! You could just need to bring the paper in and they do everything.
We just finished a book about Ephesians and now we’re do one on the Fruit of the Spirit. Luckily this book if already spiral bound
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Awesome who is the author?
My goodness! My life had been so chaotic and sad lately and now I’m finally getting back to you, sorry! The author of Fruit of the Spirit is Joyce Jameson. I can remember this now because it reminds me of James Joyce
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I have been doing this for a few years with all my piano music books. The bindings are never great and within a few months (especially for larger books) the bindings break and the pages fall apart. I advise all of my piano students to do the same when they start to get larger “keep forever” books. And I LOVE that the books stay open while I’m playing the song and the page turns are so much easier too because the whole book isn’t shutting on me.
Oh I bet, tat would be ideal for your piano students. I can’t imagine using the regular binding and having it close on you while playing.
Great idea! I didn’t know that binding a book like this was possible. I think it would work well for cookbooks too. It’s frustrating to have a page open to the recipe I’m using and then for the pages to turn or close if they are not held down. Thanks!
Oh good call I never would have thought to do a cookbook!
I didn’t know it was so cheap to do that. All the years I have wasted because I assumed it was too expensive. Thanks much.
Thanks for a great tip! I’ve taken mine in to have hole punched so I could add it to a notebook, but this would be so much easier!
You are welcome Sheila. I love it this way. And for just a few bucks it is totally worth it.
This is a great idea, Beckie! We haven’t used a book for awhile….our Bible Study is written by one of our leaders and we’re going into our second year of doing I Corinthians. We actually have them uploaded to Scribd and then all the Bible Study ladies can go on and download onto their computers and do their HW that way – many of us now bring our laptops and Ipads and such to have ours typed in {my preferences for sure}. Love this idea, though!
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Wow someone writes it all? That is impressive!
I.LOVE.THIS.IDEA!!!!!!!!!!! (IDEAS!) Thanks for sharing Ladies…..and I don’t know yet what our Fall study is…I guess I better find out!
Genius! I had given up on following along in my book during bible study while holding/rocking/entertaining a baby. We are doing Courageous Love: A Bible Study on Holiness for Women by Stacy Mitch this fall. I just had a baby Aug. 1, so I am super excited to be able to at least keep my book open to the right page during the study. Thank you so much!!!
What a wonderful idea – just confirming … you take the book in and THEY take it apart for you? I take LOTS of notes and those notebooks are really hard to write in normally. We’re going to be doing a study on James by Beth Moore. I’m definitely going to see if my Staples will do this! (Also like the idea someone had above of adding additional pages, I think I’d use lined paper).
Yep just take the book in that is all.
You have just saved my entire ladies group, The Twisted Sisters. We are constantly juggling with our books and I am sharing this awesome idea with them all via email! We are starting the Beth Moore study “Beloved Disciple: The Book of John” next Monday so that will give us time to get the books done. Thanks for sharing this great idea!
OOOOhhh I am a Beth Moore bible study junkie. I just started the new one by Priscilla Shirer and i like it so far and trying hard not to compare the two.