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Flap Books

Flap books are versatile, creative, easy-to-make projects that can be used in any content area. Flap books can be used with vocabulary words, illustrating story structure, life cycles, and much, much more.

1. Take a 12" x 18" or 9" x 12" piece of construction paper and fold it into eighths.
2. Open and cut to the center of the fold as shown.
3. Fold flaps down.
4. Write the vocabulary words on the top flaps. In this example, we have picked vocabulary words from a study of Fort Mose.
5. Open the flaps and illustrate each of the vocabulary words one at a time.
6. Optional: You can have the students use the vocabulary words in a sentence below their illustrations.