🎨 Ready for Class 1 · Moving & making · Ages 6–7 · about 3 weeks Dates: to

Fold a Standing Paper Screen

Goal: Use both hands to make alternating folds and decorate a small paper screen with a repeating pattern.

For parents: A screen is a divider; this one is a small paper model for pretend play. Work seated with ordinary scrap paper. An adult can begin each fold while your child presses it. No cutting, staples or glue are needed. It is not a barrier to lean on or climb over.

Do together

  1. Make the first two folds

    You need: A rectangular sheet of scrap paper

    Lay the sheet flat with a long edge nearest you. Fold a wide strip inward from one short edge and press it flat. Turn the sheet over. Fold that same edge back by a similar width. Help one hand hold while the other presses.

  2. Open a zigzag screen

    You need: The folded sheet

    Keep turning the sheet over and folding the same end back across the remaining paper. Open the folds slightly to form a zigzag. Stand it on a long edge as a low pretend screen. If it falls, adjust the folds together or hold it.

  3. A pattern across the panels

    You need: The screen and crayons

    Open the sheet flat. Across the panels, draw circle, circle, line, line, then repeat if space allows. Say the whole repeating group and predict what comes next. Refold the screen. Let your child choose a pretend place for it and explain the pattern.

Talk about it

  • Which hand could keep the paper still?
  • Which way will the next fold face?
  • What is the whole repeating group?

Words to use

  • fold
  • crease
  • turn
  • zigzag
  • screen
  • panel
  • pattern

Play (optional)

  • Pattern Parade
    Patterns
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