How to Make a Biology Flip Book
Learning to make a biology flip book is a fun activity for students (or home-schoolers) studying biology. You can make the books ahead of time and let students fill them with biological drawings, or make lots of identical flip books by photocopying your images and then assembling them into books.
Things You'll Need
- Paper (scrap paper with printing on the back is fine) Scissors Staples Drawing materials
Instructions
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Choose a relatively simple biological process involving movement. For example, you could make a biology flip book about a plant growing, a pair of lungs breathing or a cell dividing.
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Cut many pieces of paper into the same size. Flip books should be quite small, not more than a few inches on each side, because it takes time to fill them with drawings. Also, small books are easier to flip when they're finished.
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Make a stack of papers as thick as you can staple through, then staple it once or twice on one edge only. This is the spine of your book.
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Leave the cover blank for a title if you like. Draw the way your subject looks at the beginning of the process you are depicting on the first page of your book.
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Draw a very similar image on the next page, making only a tiny change, according to the process you are depicting. For example, if your subject is a plant growing, draw the same image on both pages, except the plant on the second page should be a tiny bit taller.
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Repeat this process on the remaining pages, making tiny changes on each. Pace yourself so that the process will be complete by the time you get to the final page.
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Hold the book by its spine in your left hand, then flip through the pages quickly with your right thumb, and watch them move.
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Tips & Warnings
To make a biology flip book with your own images for many students, draw your pictures on a single sheet of paper (or several sheets, if you have a lot of drawings) rather than an assembled book. Make as many photocopies of this page as you like, then assemble the books from the photocopies.
