Print-Cut-Fold Activities
These are templates you can download and save on your computer. Complete the activity assigned by your teacher, print out and cut/fold your project together!
Materials Needed: Brads
Materials Needed: envelopes cut in half (tape them shut before you cut them in half), glue
Directions
1. Print out notecards
2. Print out the Envelope Design
3. Cut out the Envelope Design on and glue it to an envelope
4. Cut out notecards and place them in the half cut envelope
Students conduct their research.
- Open the fan.dot template.
- Add text to each of the fan blades.
- Insert clip art.
- Double-click the graphic and change the Layout to “In front of Text”
- Reposition graphic
- Add title to fan blade using Word Art
- Print & cut blades.
- Punch holes in blades and insert a brad.
This activity could be done with almost any curriculum unit that requires knowledge of multiple topics or items. These can be used for an ongoing, long-term project where students add fan blades as the unit progresses. These are much more durable on card stock, but could be used with plain copy paper.
This is great for summarizing stories, creating short narratives, outlining procedures, or showcasing work.
- Students open the template titled minibook.dot.
- Students type the text into the appropriate fields.
- Add graphics where needed.
- Double-click the graphic and change the Layout to “In front of Text”
- Rotate the graphic if necessary using the free rotate button.
- If the free rotate button is grayed out Ungroup the graphic.
- To do this, click on each item, under format, click Group - group
- With all the pieces of the graphic still selected, click on Group (under Format)
- Move the graphic into place.
- Continue to add all necessary graphics using the same procedure.
- Print the sheet.
- Cut out the outer perimeter.
- Fold both ways at all remaining lines.
- Fold the paper into equal halves (as shown by the dashed line) with the images showing to the outside.
- Cut along the midline across the folded edge (as indicated by the dashed line) and stop at the intersection of the four panels.
- Unfold & lay the paper flat.
- Fold the paper in half lengthwise (like a hot dog) with the images showing to the outside.
- Turn the paper so that you can read the text. Grab the folded paper by the left and right edges and push together toward the center causing the edges to fold and form the shape of an “X.”
- Now fold the book so the front and back covers are in their respective places.
This is a wonderful activity that can be extremely beneficial in helping students master concepts that require classification, sequencing, summarizing, etc.
- Students open the notecard.dot template and add the contents of the note cards to the table. Students may also want to add graphics (see steps 4-6 in the Fan Decks section).
- Print the cards- you may not want to have students cut these until the card holder is ready.
- Students open the cardholder.dot template.
- Add graphics as indicated, making sure they are turned upside down.
- Add text to the existing text box (this will be the back side of the note card holder).
- Print the card holder.
- Cut the perimeter of the card holder and slit the edges as necessary.
- Fold and glue as indicated by the starbursts.
- Students may now cut their cards out and place them in the card holder.
Ideas: The cards may be created by one student and “played with” by others. For example, the cards may be a matching activity where words and definitions are matched. One student may summarize a story and list the summarized narration on individual cards. Another student would then sequence the cards according to the story.
Materials Needed: glue or tape
This activity allows students to practice and reinforce what they have learned by quizzing others in a small group setting.
- Students open the template titled cluecube.dot.
- Students find graphics that are appropriate to the theme or unit.
- Insert new graphics and delete the existing ones.
- Double-click the graphic and change the Layout to “In front of Text”
- Rotate the graphic if necessary using the free rotate button.
- If the free rotate button is grayed out Ungroup the graphic.
- To do this, Ctrl+click on the graphic and select Grouping à Ungroup. Do NOT click off the graphic after this!
- With all the pieces of the graphic still selected,
- Move the graphic into place.
- Continue to add all necessary graphics using the same procedure.
- Print the cube.
- Cut out the perimeter of the cube.
- Cut slits in the edges where a folded tab needs to be created.
- Fold and tape the cube.
- Each student (in groups of 3-4) then types or hand writes “clues” (on strips of paper) that describe a term related to the theme or unit.
- Students fold the strips and place them in the clue cube.
- One student in the group draws a strip and reads the clue.
Materials Needed: glue
This activity is applicable to any unit of study in which three distinct topics or items are defined, compared, or explained.
- Students conduct their research.
- Open the tridiamond.dot template.
- Use the bottom of the sheet to type the sentences- this will prevent students from having to turn their heads sideways to type!
- Copy the sentences and paste into the existing text boxes.
- The text direction can be changed if needed by clicking inside the text box then selecting from the menu Format à Text Direction.
- Delete the existing clip art graphics.
- Insert new clip art.
- Double-click the graphic and change the Layout to “In front of Text”
- Rotate the graphic if necessary using the free rotate button.
- If the free rotate button is grayed out Ungroup the graphic.
· To do this, Ctrl+click on the graphic and select Grouping à Ungroup. Do NOT click off the graphic after this!
· With all the pieces of the graphic still selected, click on Group (under Format)
- Move the graphic into place.
- Continue to add all necessary graphics using the same procedure.
- Print the sheet and cut off the bottom rectangle as indicated.
- Now cut one of the diagonals adjacent to the instructions and stop at the center intersection.
- Fold all the edges.
- Fold & paste the triangular panel with the instructions and tuck it behind the other panel on the opposite side of the cut.