Accordion Shape Books

Supplies Used: Adhesive, Construction paper, Scissors, Standard hole punch

The teacher will die-cut the materials for student use prior to the lesson.

1. Die-cut four Frog #3 shapes, two from light green construction paper and two from dark green construction paper.
2. On the back of the two light green frogs, attach a piece of white paper behind each eye opening.
3. Die-cut the letter B from any alphabet using red paper, and use the pieces that drop out of the B for a frog tongue. Slide the red tongue piece through the slit in the light green frog’s mouth, and attach to the back of the frog.
4. Punch four small circles with the hole punch, and adhere to the white eye opening. You can place the small circles on a sticky note for easy handling.
5. Accordion fold a piece of paper that is only as wide and tall as the frog shape so that it will fit inside the frog. Many dies have perforations, slits or holes in them, making a difficult surface on which to write.
6. Overlap the folds, and adhere with adhesive if more book pages are desired.
7. Adhere the accordion-folded pages to the front and back covers of the frog book (Main Photo).
8. The Soccer Ball and Government dies can be made into shape book reports using the same method as the frog book.