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Pattern Play: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal Models by Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta (view source)
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Here's a neat idea for you. Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal prints, I mean the sort of colours and pattern which you see on animals, not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more in-your-face. On the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut and fold the paper and it becomes a 3D model of an animal. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - and number these so that they get into the right place. All you need to add to the mix is a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cutting, a little imagination and you have hours of fun.
There are instructions - although they could easily be summarised as 'cut, fold, admire' and some background information about why animals have patterns, and which need them for what reason. All the sheets are eleven inches square and there's more than sufficient paper for each cut -out - with quite a bit to spare - but there are some helpful suggestions to use up the surplus, from collage, through papier mache to decoupage. The book appears to be paperback - but the back of the book is a substantial piece of mill board millboard which makes a useful working surface.
The illustrations have been done by Danielle Kroll and the models designed by paper engineer Nghiem Ta. There's a lot of fun to be had here: I currently have a lion walking stealthily across my desk and a giraffe who is attempting to get at the off switch of the computer. It's a lot of fun and I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.