Foldable Books

 

I heard of foldable books a couple of weeks ago and investigated further yesterday. Here is a 3 minute video about how to make your own foldable book for kids as an art project, that once folded they can draw pictures, colour rainbows or write a story.

I am excited about this since I have talked to some authors about using extracts of their books as reading material on A4 sheets in Kakuma and Nakivale camps. Perhaps by printing the story onto a sheet ready for folding and sending out as a pdf they can be printed locally and then used for reading circles, to form a library, or for sale by kids as a small entrepreneurship project, a bit like many American kids running  lemonade stand as their first steps in production and sale of useful things.

By creating a tangible product for sale or giving away, the cash flows can be looked at - labour costs, product licensing/author royalties, production and distribution costs. A simple cash flow and balance sheet could be produced from this :-) What do you think please? Let us know in the comments below, by email, or in the conversation here.

ps, the video was found here on Always August blog 

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Print them off here, fold and hang or put on mantlepiece. Each day has a nonprofitproject info on back

Give your kids a blank sheet each day and ask them to create their own

Make your own with photos, drawings or quotes/rhymes/lyrics/poems/objects each day