Flip Books

This week in co-op, we finished the flip books we started last week.
This is what we used:

card stock paper-cut to size-about 15 per student
scratch paper
pencils
colored pencils or markers
hole punches
ribbon or thread

Each child got about 15 pieces of cardstock paper, all cut to size. Ours were about 2 1/2" by 4 1/4". We pre-punched three evenly spaced holes near one end of the top page. The kids were to line up their remaining pages behind this and punch out the rest of the holes themselves. (One or two pages at a time.) Some kids could do this and some needed help. We had two hole punches and shared them around as the kids worked on their images.

First we looked at some flip books my big kids had made when they were small. (Top: The Wave, Snowman melting, balloon floating, rock rolling down hill.) We brainstormed some ideas for the kids to try on their books. Be sure the kids draw their images toward the edge opposite the hole-punched (binding) so the images can be seen easily when the pages are flipped. Here is a good flip book post from Family Fun Magazine.
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/flip-book-cartoon-848205/

Some of the ideas the kids used were:
a dinosaur running
a man falling off a cliff
a person accidentally swallowing a fly
a car wreck
a dog chasing a cat
a football play
a blooming flower and butterly landing on it
a bouncing ball

After drawing their series, the kids brought them to be checked and any changes were made. Several had not used up most of their pages and had to add some images to their series to make the movement more realistic. Too few pages makes the flip action harder to manage and the image movement too jerky. Some found it helpful to lay their series out and look at them side by side and then re-stack when done with all images. (above)

When all the drawing was done, the pages were stacked and tied together with ribbon. The ribbon ends went down from the top through the two outside holes to the back. Then both ends were pushed up from the back through the middle hole and tied around the center of the ribbon. Finish with a knot or bow, as desired.