Folded Book: Activity 2

More folded books

If paper is folded back and forth many times, it will become brittle and break. As a solution to this in the eighteenth century, many folding maps were mounted onto cloth. The cloth backing protected and strengthened the fragile paper so that it didn't tear along the joins. Ask the children to cut a map into rectangular sections and stick the pieces onto cloth. Make sure that the joins are quite close together. Brainstorm different ways to protect paper in the twenty first century.

Folded book
	Write a diary for two weeks or write a diary as someone else, a character from a book perhaps or a historical figure. Then display it in a book. However, make sure that one or two of your pages fold out and show a map, illustration, photograph or a poem. When folding your pages, make sure that the creases are firm so that they always fold back properly and don't become damaged.
Folded pirate story
	Write a story about pirates. Make a book. On the folding pages draw a treasure map with authentic holes and burnt edges to make it look old. Or you could write a captain's log book. The fold out pages could be illustrations of the things you saw on your travels.
Folded diary
	Imagine you are a character such as Robin Hood or one of King Arthur's Knights. Write a diary of the things you did. Use the folding sections of book for maps, illustrations of your capture, war plans etc.