Foldable+Boards

=Dinah Zyke, the queen of folds! I love these 3-D graphic organizers so much so that I named my Bassett Hound puppy after Dinah. Reason being, she had just a dot of black on her white body. Dinah loves to say "just a dot" when speaking about how to glue the Zyke way. In my classroom/office, I keep example boards of all the folds and have participants in my Farout Foldable trainings make/take them as well.= 1. Obtain a square sheet of paper 2.Starting with the top left corner and moving clockwise, label each corner A, then B, then C and finally D 3.Fold corner A over to corner C and crease, resulting in a large triangle 4.Place the triangle in front of you with the folded edge toward you 5.Starting with the corner at the top and moving clockwise label the corners D, then E, then F 6.Fold corner E over to the midpoint between F and D and crease 7.Open up the fold you just made to get back to the original triangle 8.Fold corner F over to the midpoint between D and E and crease 9.Repeat the fold in step 6 over the top of the step 8 fold resulting in a pentagon shape 10. Fold the single thickness labeled D down to the front and the other thickness down to the back 11. Open up your cup 12. Fill it up to provide evidence that it does not leak to your teacher 13. Ask your teacher to mark a 100 down in the grade book when you are successful…do not forget to say please! ||
 * ** Fold/Vocab ** || ** Description ** ||
 * 3/4 Book || Hamburger, Hamburger, Open one fold, cut up on valley, lift left flap and remove flap. ||
 * 4 Door Book || Pinch to find the center of long side, fold edges in to center mark (this is a shutter fold base), next hamburger shutter fold, open fold, cut up on each valley of the left and right shutter faces. ||
 * 4 Door Diorama || Pinch to find the center of long side, fold edges in to center mark (this is a shutter fold base), next hamburger shutter fold, open fold, cut up on each valley of the left and right shutter faces (this is a 4 door book base), open all 4 flaps and sit the fold up on the valley of the center area, secure top flaps to bottom flaps if independent or leave detached for dependent fold. ||
 * Accordion Book || Hot dog, hamburger, edges back toward mountain. You may cut up on folds of the front hotdog face if you want flaps to lift and more surfaces to write on. ||
 * Bacon || Hamburger, hot dog, shave the mountains gives you 4 strips or remember you always have a strip when you make a taco. ||
 * Billboard Project ||  ||
 * Boat || Fold paper diagonally and remove the excess (taco base + bacon), hamburger the mountain, open to see x marks the spot, cut up on the valley from one corner to the center (pyramid fold base), working with the 2 “legs”, fold corner “foot” up to side corner “hip” on both sides (looks like it is kneeling), fold “knees” up, then take top corner and fold it down. You should see 3 triangles and it looks like an upside down canoe. ||
 * Bound Book || Decide on how many pages you would like your book to be and divide by 2 to know how many sheets of paper to use, Divide sheets into two even as possible piles. Hamburger both piles, One pile you will be shaving the mountain off of but leave an inch in tact at both ends and just shave out the middle (we call this the cut out pile), with the other pile cut up on the valley one inch at each end (we call this the cut up pile). Next roll the cut up pile into a burrito (roll the long side). Insert the burrito through the cut out pile opening half way and then open up the burrito so that the slots match and bind your book. ||
 * Burrito || Roll a sheet or a pile of sheets on the long side. ||
 * Center Tab || Hot dog, fold the front edge back toward the mountain, glue the top half of the front face to the back of the fold and then cut tabs (as many as you need) on the bottom loose half of the front face. ||
 * Center Tab File || Hot dog, fold both edges toward the mountain, glue the top halves of both faces together so it sits up on the bottom halves. Once dry, cut as many tabs on the glued together center tab and place your files between the slits. ||
 * Chicken Nugget || Hamburger, hot dog, hamburger and shave all the mountains gives you 8 chicken nuggets or hamburger a strip of bacon and shave the mountain gives you 2 nuggets. ||
 * Circle Tenths Fold ||  ||
 * Circle Book ||  ||
 * Concept Map Book ||  ||
 * Cup Pocket || I make the pocket book with this following directions activity which I always use on the very first day of school.
 * Cycle Circle ||  ||
 * Cut Out || Starting with a Hamburger fold (or a pile of them), leave about an inch on each end of the mountain and shave off the center portion. (Bound Book maneuver) ||
 * Cut Up || Starting with a Hamburger fold (or a pile of them), cut up about an inch on each end of the valley. (Bound Book maneuver) ||
 * Dinah Zike || The Foldable Queen, fast-talking, breast cancer survivor, hill country of Texas resident, can be found with a pair of scissors laced around her neck at any time. ||
 * Display Case ||  ||
 * Egg Roll || Roll a sheet or pile of sheets on the short side ||
 * Envelope Fold || Start with a square piece of paper (make a taco). Fold the mountain of the taco in half. Open up to X marks the spot. Fold one of the corners up a bit passed center and crease. Fold the corners to the sides a bit passed center and crease. Frame the overlapping edges to create the bottom of the envelope. The remaining corner that hasn’t been folded is your envelope flap. Insert what you will into your envelope and then secure that last corner by folding it down and sealing it shut with a sticker or something. ||
 * Flap Book || Starting with the most basic hot dog or hamburger fold or anytime you have a face you can cut flaps or tabs to make a tab book. ||
 * Flip Flop Book ||  ||
 * Folded Chart ||  ||
 * Framing || When you need to glue a surface, frame the surface with a line of Elmer’s glue about a cm. from the edge all the way around. ||
 * Fortune Teller ||  ||
 * Gallon Ziplock || Store projects in these to keep all your bits and pieces together. Hint: clip off the corner so the air can escape and they will lay flat. Can also hole punch and secure in a 3-ring binder. ||
 * Half Book || Hamburger a sheet of paper. Then Hamburger it again. ||
 * Hamburger || Whenever you take a rectangular sheet of paper and shorten the long side that is a hamburger fold. ||
 * Hot Dog || Whenever you take a rectangular sheet of paper and shorten the short side that is a hot dog fold. ||
 * House Fold ||  ||
 * Inch Philosophy || On most adult women, the between the first and the second knuckle on the index finger is about an inch. Kids need to have an “estimator” “ball park” as to how long an inch is. A centimeter is as wide as your pinkie if you’ve gone metric. ||
 * Interactive Bar Graph || Turn a layer book on its side and make each layer a bar of your graph. Underneath each bar you can write about what that bar is telling the viewer/user of the data. ||
 * “Just a Dot” || Often the amount you need of glue to secure a fold like when making a layer book. ||
 * Layer Book || Get several sheets of paper (I use different colors and the number of sheets is according to how many layers you need). Stagger the sheets in the pile anywhere from an inch to a cm. Then flip the bottom edge up and over to have the same color layers appear in the center the same distance apart and crease. Put “just a drop” of glue in each valley to secure. Works better than staples. ||
 * Magic Book || Start with a hamburger fold. Instead of the traditional hot dog fold, Fold the edges of the hamburger on each side back up towards the mountain. Laying there it looks like a W or M from the side. If you grab the center mountain of the W, that is the ridge where you will cut as many slits as you need for your project from the mountain to the valley (making the Mohawk). Next, in that “Mohawk” region you are going to weave two strips of bacon. Start under the original or base sheet of paper on the left side and weave in and out. Start over the original or base sheet of paper on the right side and weave in and out. Looks checkerboard like in the center region if you did it right. With the center mountain of the W pointing up, grab two tabs of the base paper of the mountain and split apart gentle to reveal a secret space for answers that correspond to questions you may have written on the checker board squares before mad the split. To close just pull the outer edges of the base sheet apart. ||
 * Matchbook || Take a chicken nugget and hamburger it all but a centimeter from the edge. Then fold that leftover edge up to create a matchbook. ||
 * Mini Book ||  ||
 * Mountain || When you make a fold the outside folded edge is referred to as the mountain. ||
 * Paper Fifths Fold ||  ||
 * Petals ||  ||
 * Picture Frame Book ||  ||
 * Pie Graph || Cut a set of circles the same size (I like different colors) then cut up one radius (edge to center). Interlace the various circles and twist about to represent the percentages you are reporting. ||
 * Pinch and Pull || When making a fold, bring the edges over, match the corners, pinch and pull for a sharp crease. ||
 * Pocket Book || Start with a Hamburger fold. Fold one edge perpendicular to the valley crease up about 2 inches to make the pocket. Frame the edges of that pocket to secure to the back of the “folder” and close. Looks similar to the pocket notebooks you can purchase. ||
 * Pop Up Book ||  ||
 * Project w/ Tabs ||  ||
 * Pyramid Fold || Start with a Taco. Fold the mountain of the taco in half. When you open it all up, X marks the spot. Cut up on the valley from one corner to the midpoint. Now the taco can not only talk it can walk (work the legs). We know this is a female taco because she always sits with her legs crossed. Do so and walla! You have a pyramid. Frame one of the surfaces that overlap with glue to hold it in place. ||
 * Quilt Square ||  ||
 * Report Holder ||  ||
 * Scrap Box || Any piece of paper 2 inches or larger can be saved in a scrap box for all to rummage through when the need arises. ||
 * Sentence Strip Book ||  ||
 * Sentence Strip Holder ||  ||
 * Shaving || Rather than trying to run the scissors up a straight line crease, just find the outer mountain folded edge and shave it (cut it) off. ||
 * Shutter Fold || Fold edges of a sheet over and match the corners. Instead of pinching and pulling to crease, just pinch to mark the center of the edge in question. Then fold the outer edges of the sheet in to the center mark. If your students aren’t familiar with shutter, remind them it ends up looking like a baby science project board. ||
 * Standing Cube ||  ||
 * Taco || This fold turns a rectangular sheet of paper into a square. To do so, take one corner over diagonally to the opposite edge so that the two edges line up. Pinch and pull to create the diagonal crease. Cut off the excess part that hangs over a.k.a. bacon. Notice at this stage, the taco fold can talk (work the fold open and closed like a mouth yammering). ||
 * Top Tab Book ||  ||
 * Trifold || To make this fold, you take one edge over a bit past half estimating so that the part you are folding over is equal to the part that remains. Pinch and crease then take the other edge back across in the opposite direction so that it covers the fold you already made. In closed position you have two mountain edges. ||
 * Valley || When a fold has been made, the valley is the name for the inside crease. Helps with direction of instruction. ||