Make a Book Safe

Secrets don't have to be locked away in a vault, you can hide them in plain sight with this book safe!

You might think that secrets need to be be put in a place where other spies can't get to, such as a big safe. The problem with that is, that a safe is known for holding valuables, and crooks know this too!

Sometimes it's better to hide your secrets in plain sight. For this you can modify a regular (hard cover) book to be a great hiding place. It may not be as well protected as in a safe, but the upside is that other spies won't know where to look for it!

What you need to make a book safe:

• Hard cover book that nobody wants to read anymore (double-check with your parents).
• Sharp Stanley or Exacto knife (get your parent to help!)
  
• Ruler
• Pencil

Assembly instructions:

1. Open the book near the beginning, but not on page 1. If needed, you can put another book under the front cover to support it, so the pages in which you are going to cut are lying flat.
2. With the pencil and ruler, draw a rectangle on the right page. Don't draw to close to the edge of the page!
3. Now we're going to cut into the book. Cutting is done with a sharp knife and should be done by an adult! Put the ruler on one edge of the drawn rectangle, and cut through the pages with the knife against the ruler. Watch your fingers! Don't cut all the way to the edge of the page, and don't go to deep, as it's difficult to cut, plus you can skip the pages you just cut, and cut deeper from that point on.
4. After you have cut rectangles out of the pages you wanted, you'll have a void in the book, much like the picture above.
5. Some like to glue the cut pages together with wallpaper paste. It isn't necessary to hide your stuff though.
6. Now hide your secrets in your book safe, and lastly put your secret book on a book shelf with many more books. Others won't know where to look for it!