My Favorite Zoo Animals

Students make this booklet to create a zoo environment for their favorite wild animals. The animals are put into cages.

Here are the steps for this pop-up book:

1. Fold three pieces of paper in half and cut nine slits down from the fold.

2. Push the cut area through the fold and crease it to form a pop-up section.

3. Make the other pop-up pages and glue their back to another folded sheet with a different color for contrast.

4. Draw three different zoo animals, cut them out, and put them into their respective cages. Write sentences to say why you like those animals, for instance, I like monkeys because they're funny. They have long arms.

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Students practiced asking What's this? and What's that? by making a pop-up booklet to identify some school supplies.

Food Categories - Where do fruit and vegetables grow? - Pop-Up Book

Using the pop-up book is an involving way for the students to classify different food items: Do they grow on trees, on plants, or underground? We used one page for each category.

Here are the steps for a dimensional effect on the project:

1. For each page, fold an A5 sheet of paper in half and cut slits down from the fold. Narrow slits for the tree and wide slits for the plant / underground.

2. Push the cut area through the fold and crease it to form a pop-up section.

3. Glue the 3 pages back to back.

4. Label the pictures.

5. Glue a cover to the pop-up book and write the title and the author's name.

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