Booklets or mini books are terms refer to various papers folded to create accordion books, flip-up books, fold-outs, shape books, question and answer books, pocket books, pop-up books, vocabulary books, half-folds, layered books, etc. Directions for the booklets are illustrated and explained in Dinah Zike’s Big Book of Books and Activities available at the bottom of this page.
Booklets for Scrapbook Folders are created during a unit study and combined after the study.

Accordian Booklet


Layer Booklet

Card Fold Booklet
Pop Up Booklet

Shape Booklet

FlipFlap Booklets



Flip Flap Booklet
Circle Booklet
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The Big Book of Books and Activities: An Illustrated Guide for Teacher, Parents, and Anyone Who Works With Kids! by Dinah Zike, Dinah-Might Activities
This is a must have book for all homeschoolers! I've used mine every year for 12 years with all my children and the price is still the same!
A must have for forScrapbook Folders, scrapbooking, notebooking and more! Includes the booklets instructions you'll need to create Scrapbook Folders.
This book won the Learning magazine's Teacher's Choice Award.
It illustrates how to make HUNDREDS of manipulatives and teaching aids using inexpensive materials found in the classroom or at home.
With over 400 black and white photographs and illustrations, this easy-to-use visual guide takes you through the steps for making each student/teacher project that will help convert your schoolroom into a student oriented learning environment. Gives specific examples of their use over a wide range of subjects.
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How to Use
the Big Book of Books
Video
In this lively, fact-filled, 60-minute video, Dinah shows how to use the books and folds in her award-winning Big Book of Books and Activities.
Dinah Zike ill show you how to: organize, store, and grade the manipulatives, use them as student activities to replace ditto sheets, use them as alternative assessment tools, and use them as student projects and reports. 60 minute video
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Now you can complete quick, easy, creative projects in a very short time using simple, inexpensive materials. The Big Book of Projects explains how to select appropriate project topics, conduct thorough research, organize needed materials, decide on a visual format, and prepare the final project presentation. Over 100 example projects are presented, and there are over 200 photographs and illustrations to visually stimulate your project imagination. This book is a must have for anyone who will ever have to "do a project"