Animate the Animals
Make a Flipbook

Supplies needed: paper, scissors, pencil, thin marker, ruler, and stapler.

1. Divide your paper into strips 2 inches wide.
2. Cut it into 3 strips of 1's, 2's, and 3's. Divide the strips into equal sections, probably about 2 inches wide.
3. Decide what animal you want to animate. Draw that animal moving (like an owl flapping its wings) in sequence. Draw a picture of the animal in one position in 1 strip. Draw another picture of the animal in a different position in 2 strip. Draw a third picture of the animal in another position in 3 strip. If you draw in pencil, go over the drawings with a thin black marker.

4. Cut up the one's, two's, and three's into separate pieces.
5. Separate the pieces into piles.
6. Get the pieces in an order of 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, etc.
7. Staple the pieces together.
8. When you flip the pages, it will look like the animal is moving.
                              You have a flipbook!!!!!!!!!!!!

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