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| Tunnel books are fun and unique! We made ours using a postcard for a prompt and wrote a haiku to go with it. I’ve made these with grade 4 and up, but younger students could enjoy this activity in “centers”, with the help of parent volunteers, or by having the various parts prepped for them ahead of time. |
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| There are lots of different directions you could take this project. We added a pocket on the back for holding a written story that we added later. See a few of our student examples below!For a convenient step-by-step pdf of this lesson, visit my Teachers Pay Teachers Store |
These are GREAT – thanks for sharing…I could see this as a collaboration between art teachers and classroom teachers.
The books look great, students must be so proud of themselves!
These are fantastic! They look like alot of work, but agree with Nancie Kay that this is a great cross curricular activity.
I know these look complicated, but once you’ve made one it’s really not that difficult. And yes, the kids LOVE them!!! :)
I love making tunnel books- I've used Shel Silverstein's, “What's in the Sack?” poem as a starting off point, making a tunnel book as to “what's in a sack…”, and I have a couple of tunnel books, “Dancing Skeletons” and “La Grande Jatte” that make great references!
Thank you – these are AWESOME!!
LOVE THIS IDEA! I am organizing a summer reading group where moms each take a week of hosting kids in their home and do activities around a favorite children's book. I am sure to use this idea when it's my turn to host! Thanks for the super site!
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I am sharing this idea on my blog (giving you credit)as an activity to go along with a book. The Title of the book and author will be on the front, then characters,plot and setting will be displayed on each “page”. I'll be sharing this idea on air too. Email me if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks for your great ideas!
Lisa Bergantz
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I couldn't find an email to contact you personally…mine is [email protected]
My daughter saw this and wanted to create her own tunnel book IMMEDIATELY! What a great post. Thanks for sharing it! Katja
Katja, I'm glad your daughter was inspired! Have fun!!
It's done ! And really not difficult even for my six year old daughter. Tomorow, she wants do “at least three” other tunnel books… A new passion is born !
Great activity! Found that the rectangle die cut at school is a great opening size for my students with small motor issues!
A die-cut is a great idea, Theresa! Sometimes one less step makes a big difference!
This is a fabulous idea, but I would love to see step-by-step pictures.
I agree completely, Jennie! I have a tutorial for this project with step-by-step photos on my Teachers Pay Teachers store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Haiku-Tunnel-Books-1192779
Since I don’t have any postcards, I found some nature pics online to photo print at Walmart. Since I have 75 students, $.09 per 4×6 print isn’t too bad! :)
Great idea, Keli! Thanks for sharing that!!