Book Huts

When I ran across blog http://redhenhome.blogspot.com/2011/07/book-birdhouses.html last year in November, it reminded me of the book "The Village of Round and Square Houses".  I don't mean to toot childrens' books, but we did a lot of reading that year (and still do presently).  The huts on the cover of the book reminded me of the one of the birdhouses found on the Red Hen Home blog. A geometry lesson on rounds and squares can be the inspiration for the book.

Doesn't this book jacket have lovely pencil sketchings?

Our class did the first example of birdhouses.

The kids were so focused on folding these pages. I think the crispness of folding pages was lost because they were too interested to see who was on what page.  Nonetheless, the idea was captured.

Some were slowing down because they were reading when they should have been folding.

Can you tell if the pages are crisply folded from these pictures?

One of the first to be done!

I tried the section version of the birdhouse.  This one required careful tearing of the pages, and it didn't always turn out so well.  You can see that the one I attempted doesn't have the slanted edge on it.  I didn't finish it (but I will one day) just because I don't like to leave things undone for too long.

Supplies:

1. paperback book (around 200 pages is great)

2. string

3. hot glue gun

4. decoration (optional) ((I gave a friend one that I had sprayed painted silver.))

Directions:

1. tear cover off front cover and back cover

2. first page, fold page in half toward "backbone" of book

3. fold down top of same page making a triangle

4. second page, take top of page and fold toward "spine" of book, making a triangle

5. same page, take bottom of page and fold toward "spine" of book, combines first triangle to make     one large triangle

6. alternate pages 1 and 2 around the book

Duration:

This is a 1-1.5 hour project (depending on how fast you fold)