My son was involved with his school’s one act play competition and he asked me to make a prop for it. This was fun as I got really silly with some of it, but the front and back (aka the parts when the paper is open and facing the audience) I had to make sure fit the play of course, but I still had a bit of fun with it, as even following the prompts still gave me a lot of room to put my own spin on things.

The play is called “The Perfect Ending” if you want to look it up. There are two versions of the paper – this isn’t in the script – my son and his teacher decided it would be funny if someone grabbed the first paper out of his hand and his character pulled another one out of his pocket. So, I made the other one so they can have this added bit of improv to make their performance unique.

I used Lorem Ipsem text for every article – which is just filler text that are not real words but made to look like it so you’re brain is tricked to thinking it’s normal text – spacing, word length, etc. All the article headers I made, trying to fit with the theme of the headline. The ads I just googled newspaper ads and saved a few I liked the look of.

The inside is where I went really silly with it, as no one in the audience would see it enough to read any of the titles, but it sill had the look of a paper to make it a completed prop. Again, just filled with Lorem Ipsum text and random pictures I found on google. The inside of both versions of the paper are identical, again just for show.

I did a rough layout in Microsoft Word, printed out the pieces, then glued them all together. Easy peasy.

I had plenty of giggles while making this and I loved that I could make it for my son and the play.