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How to Make an Educational Flip Book

A flip book has pages with individual frames. You can bend the book and release its pages, one at a time, to create the illusion that an image is moving. This illusion is created through slight changes in the positioning of the object drawn on each page. Making a flip book provides an opportunity for students to learn about a particular educational concept -- especially a motion-related one -- through animation. For instance, you can teach children about the law of gravity by having them create flip books that depict an item falling.

Things You'll Need

  • Paper -- about 10 to 12 pages, any size
  • Pencil
  • Crayon
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Instructions

    • 1

      Draw an image that represents the background on each sheet of paper, making each drawing as identical as possible.

    • 2

      Draw the moving object so that it starts at one point on the first page, and then shifts to a slightly different position on each following page. For example, the flip book could show an apple attached to a tree on the first page and then show it gradually falling -- perhaps onto Newton’s head on the last page.

    • 3

      Arrange the pictures on top of each other, with the first one in the animation's chronology at the bottom and the final image on top.

    • 4

      Staple the left edges of the pages together. Staple as close as possible to the edges, so the entire picture can be seen on each page.

    • 5

      Hold the book with the stapled side on the left. Pinch all the pages at the unstapled side of the flip book, and pull them toward the left. Then release the pages one at a time. The flip book should show the animation going in the right chronology. If not, remove the staples, reorganize the pages and re-staple the book.

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