Random Facts and a New Folded Book! 20 V 20

Hello Room 222!

Today is Day 68 of our stay-at-home time.

Keep reading to see our new class book of random science facts and how to fold a new kind of little book!

RANDOM SCIENCE FACTS (From your research projects...)






HOW TO MAKE A MEANDER FOLDED BOOK

This folded book project takes a regular piece of paper and makes a 16 page folded book. Add some cardboard covers and you have a fun little book that you can write or draw in.

It's called a "meander book" because the pages "meander" or follow a twisting path.








You will need:

* paper
* scissors
* pencil
* cardboard (I used an old tissue box.)
* glue or tape

What to do:

* Fold the paper into equal sections by folding the paper in half, long edge to long edge and then short edge to short edge (4 fourths)
* Now, fold each of the two long edges to the centre fold line. You now have 8 eighths.
* Next, fold each of the two short edges to the centre fold line. You now have 16 sixteenths.
* With a pencil draw three lines on some of the fold lines, like in the photo.
* Cut along the pencil lines.
* Fold the pages by folding the small rectangle sections back and forth, accordion-style, until you have a folded up all 16 pages into a single pile.
* If you want, you can add a cardboard front and back cover. Cut the cardboard a bit bigger than the size of the book. (A regular sheet of paper will need covers about 7 and 1/2 cm long and 6 cm wide.
* Draw or write in your new little book!