Fare i libri coi bambini – i libri tunnel
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Fare i libri coi bambini – i libri tunnel: questo è lo schema base per costruirli:
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel23.jpg)
Materiale occorrente
– cartone più spesso per le cornici e il fondo (io ho usato con la piccola i miei soliti cartoni per pizza 🙂 )
– carta le pareti a fisarmonica, la copertina e le decorazioni
– colla da carta
– forbici e taglierino
Come si fa
Come vedrete poi, i tunnel books possono essere vere opere d’arte; questo è il modello più semplice che conosco, e si può realizzare anche coi bambini della scuola d’infanzia (la bimba ha 4 anni).
Si compone di questi elementi:
![](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel6.jpg)
– 4 cornici di cartone
– il fondo (delle stesse dimensioni della cornice)
– due pareti di carta pieghettata a fisarmonica.
Coi bambini si può lavorare così…
Per prima cosa si tagliano nel cartone 5 rettangoli uguali. Se per le pareti a fisarmonica usate fogli A4, è comodo fare in modo che i rettangoli di cartone abbiano la stessa altezza del lato corto del foglio a4, e la larghezza che si vuole:
![fare i libri](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/fare-i-libri.jpg)
In quattro dei cinque rettangoli di cartone il bambino può tracciare con pennarello e righello i contorni della cornice (senza prendere misure, il punto di riferimento può essere semplicemente la larghezza del righello posizionato sul bordo):
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel.jpg)
Incidete col taglierino in corrispondenza dei segni, poi date al bambino da separare:
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel1.jpg)
Fatta la prima cornice, il bambino può tracciare i segni per le altre utilizzando la prima come modello:
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel2.jpg)
Ora il bambino potrà rivestire le quattro cornici e il rettangolo per il fondo con la carta colorata:
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel3.jpg)
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel4.jpg)
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel5.jpg)
Se il bambino non è in grado di farlo, preparate voi (magari prima) quattro fogli A4 a fisarmonica. Prendete i fogli dal lato corto e fate pieghe larghe 2 centimetri
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel6.jpg)
I fogli a fisarmonica vanno incollati a due a due, per arrivare alla lunghezza giusta, e qui il bambino può aiutare:
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel7.jpg)
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel8.jpg)
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel9.jpg)
per poi continuare mettendo la colla ai lati della prima cornice e applicando le prime estremità della fisarmonica:
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel10.jpg)
Allo stesso modo può incollare la fisarmonica al retro; ora il libro può stare in piedi:
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel11.jpg)
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel12.jpg)
Ora bisogna stendere la colla sulle cornici, sui lati esterni, davanti e dietro:
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel13.jpg)
e inserirli a distanza regolare nella fisarmonica:
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel14.jpg)
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel15.jpg)
La struttura del nostro libro tunnel è pronta:
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel16.jpg)
Restano da incollare a destra ed a sinistra della prima cornice due fogli che faranno da copertina e permetteranno di chiudere il libro (come volete sul davanti per nascondere i disegni, o anche sul retro per contenere la fisarmonica chiusa).
Come vedrete poi, coi bambini più grandi questa struttura permette di creare immagini in prospettiva, accentuandone la profondità; ma non rinunciamo al progetto anche coi bambini più piccoli…
… la bimba, ad esempio, sulla scia della festa di Halloween appena trascorso, ha voluto disegnare dei mostri. Li ha ritagliati:
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel22.jpg)
E incollati nel tunnel…
… oggi però la voglia di disegnare non era ai livelli soliti, per cui abbiamo potuto completare l’opera aggiungendo ai disegni vari adesivi a tema:
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel17.jpg)
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel18.jpg)
![Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel21](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel21.jpg)
![Fare i libri coi bambini - i libri tunnel](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel20.jpg)
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Fare i libri coi bambini – i libri tunnel – Esempi di tunnel books d’autore
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Fare i libri coi bambini – i libri tunnel – Esempi di tunnel books realizzati da bambini più grandi
Questo articolo fa parte dell’Album di Vita pratica:
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Tunnel books tutorial – This is the basic scheme to build them:
(CORNICE: frame, FONDO: bottom, FOGLIO A FISARMONICA: accordion sheet, COPERTINA:cover)
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel23.jpg)
Tunnel books tutorial
What do you need?
– Thicker cardboard for the frames and the bottom (I used with my usual small pizza boxes :-))
– paper for the accordion walls, the cover and the decorations
– Glue for paper
– Scissors and cutter
What to do?
As you will see later, the tunnel books are true artworks; this is the simplest model that I know, and can also be made with the children of kindergarten (my little girl is 4 years old).
It consists of these elements:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel6.jpg)
– 4 frames of cardboard
– the bottom (of the same size
of frame)
– two walls of accordion-pleated paper.
With children you can work in this way…
First they cut in the cardboard 5 equal rectangles. If for the walls on accordion you use A4 sheets, it is convenient to do so that the rectangles of cardboard have the same height of the short side of the sheet, and the width that you want:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/fare-i-libri.jpg)
In four of the five rectangles of cardboard the child can draw with marker pen and ruler the contours of the frame (without taking measures, the reference point can be simply the width of the ruler positioned on the edge):
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel.jpg)
Engrave with the cutter in correspondence with the signs, then give the child to be separated:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel1.jpg)
Made the first frame, the child can trace the signs for the other using the first as a model:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel2.jpg)
Now the child can cover all four frames and rectangle for the bottom with colored paper:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel3.jpg)
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel4.jpg)
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel5.jpg)
If the child is unable to do so, prepare you (maybe first) four A4 sheets accordion. Take the paper from the short side and make pleats 2 cm wide:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel6.jpg)
The accordion sheets are glued two by two, to arrive at the right length, and here the child can help us:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel7.jpg)
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel8.jpg)
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel9.jpg)
then continue putting glue to the sides of the first frame and applying the first ends of the accordion:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel10.jpg)
Similarly he can glue the accordion to the back; now the book can stand on:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel11.jpg)
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel12.jpg)
Now we need to spread the glue on the frames, on the outside, front and back:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel13.jpg)
and place them at regular intervals in the accordion:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel14.jpg)
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel15.jpg)
The structure of our tunnel book is ready:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel16.jpg)
Remain to be glued to the right and to the left of the first frame two sheets that will be the cover and allow to close the book.
As you will see later, with the older children this structure allows you to create images in perspective, emphasizing the depth; but we do not reject the project even with younger children …
… my little girl, for example, in the wake of Halloween just passed, has wanted to draw monsters. She cut them:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel22.jpg)
And glued in the tunnel …
… But today the desire to draw was not at usual levels, so we were able to complete the work, adding to the drawings various themed stickers:
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel17.jpg)
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel18.jpg)
![Tunnel books tutorial Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel21.jpg)
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel20.jpg)
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fare-i-libri-coi-bambini-i-libri-tunnel21.jpg)
Tunnel books tutorial
Examples of tunnel books of author
![Tunnel books tutorial](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book.jpg)
http://www.popularkinetics.com/
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book1.jpg)
http://monkeymoo12345pdp.wordpress.com/
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book2.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book3.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book4.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book5.jpg)
http://doradueck.wordpress.com/
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book6.jpg)
http://www.tunnelvisionbooks.com/
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book7.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book8.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book9.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book10.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book27.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book13.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book14.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book15.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book16.jpg)
Tunnel books tutorial
Examples of tunnel books made by older children
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book17.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book18.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book19.jpg)
http://ampersandduck.blogspot.it
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book20.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book21.jpg)
http://onecreativefishmonger.blogspot.it/
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book22.jpg)
http://teachers.greenville.k12.sc.us/
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book23.jpg)
http://megankimball.blogspot.it/
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book24.jpg)
![tunnel book](https://www.lapappadolce.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunnel-book26.jpg)