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Info on how to make Tunnel Books, a fun arts-based project to show what students know about virtually any subject/topic

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Looking for an innovative way to introduce foreground, middleground, and background to your students? Want students to be able to create their own stages or settings for written plays? What about bringing Ancient Chinese Landscapes to life by creating a three-dimensional work of art? Sick of dioramas? Try Tunnel Books! You can check out my Tunnel Book Pinterest Board . The possibilities for arts integration are endless.

What are Tunnel Books?

As I was wondering around internet, I stumbled upon these amazing works of art called Tunnel Books. I immediately began thinking of ways to utilize them in my art classroom and how they could be used for Arts Integration. Basic folding skills and a few planning tools were all we needed to begin the adventure as a class.

So what are Tunnel Books? They are comprised of paper panels that are spaced in such a way that when a viewer stands in front of the artwork it looks like a complete landscape, scene, or setting. As the viewer moves around, however, they can look through, above, and below the work of art and see separate worlds within the same piece. They are surprising, innovative, and technically amazing. They are basic to make, but have a big impact when fully constructed. These Tunnel Books are perfect for Arts Integration and can fit into any curriculum seamlessly!

What We Made

I had students think of stories that they had read and liked, lyrics to songs that they could relate to, or poems that they would like to illustrate. They were also given the option of producing a work of art from their imagination. The expression on the students' faces when we finished constructing their masterpieces was so inspiring! They were so excited to see their two-dimensional works of art come to life! They loved that their artwork could be looked at and looked through.

Arts Integration Connections

The basic format for the tunnel book can be applied to any content area! This is one of the reasons why I love them so much! The materials, processes, techniques, and subject matter can be interchanged to fit any need in any classroom which makes them perfect for Arts Integration. The other thing that I like about them is that they can be simplified for younger students or made extremely intricate for older students.

Foreground, Middleground, Background: Take these concepts and apply them directly to something students can see and build. We made our tunnel books using four panels: Foreground in the front, then middleground, background, and finally back cover. Each point of interest or focus had to either be positioned on a different side from another panel or be higher on the page than the one before it.

Perspective: When creating paths, or roads, perspective had to be utilized for the layers to match.

Space and Proportion: Subjects in the foreground were to be larger than subjects in the background or on the back cover.

Measuring and Using Artistic Tools: During this lesson, we used rulers, scissors, glue, folding tools, and I helped with an X-acto knife when things became tricky.

Student written stories, or interpreting text visually

Story Mash-ups: Alice in Wonderland and Matilda

Illustrations of Poems or Song Lyrics

Written Play and Puppets. Film the plays for an added technology layer to the lesson.

Science and Social Studies

These are perfect for classroom presentations where posters are overused. Students can create their own shadowboxes of sorts to depict ideas in Science and Social Studies.
Science Social Studies

Ancient Civilizations

Maps

Historical Biographies

Thinking Backwards is key for this lesson. We began with a complete sketched picture. What do you want the entire piece to look like when the viewer is looking straight ahead? Then we separated it into four layers. While constructing the final product, students had to assemble their individual works of art to create an entire three-dimensional world.

Tunnel Book Construction Links

From Instructables

Tunnel Books: An Easy Step By Step from the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library

How to Make a Tunnel Book By Snapguide

How to Make a Tunnel Book By The Artist Women

Tunnel Books have become a wonderful teaching tool for me! They're inspiring and so versatile! Think about giving them a try in your classroom.

How could you use Tunnel Books in your content area? Let us know in the comments below!

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Looking for an innovative way to introduce foreground, middleground, and background to your students? Want students to be able to create their own stages or settings for written plays? What about bringing Ancient Chinese Landscapes to life by creating a three-dimensional work of art? Sick of dioramas? Try Tunnel Books!

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This is an awesome lesson used for teaching inferencing with portraits that can preface inferences in text.

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This explains a great color-by-number type of project using parts of speech. It's leveled and includes other parts of speech resources, as well. Unfortunately the activities themselves are not free, but only cost about $6 and seem to come with a ton of useful activities if your students struggle with identifying parts of speech!

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Teaching or reviewing parts of speech is a lot of fun with these "Pop Art" parts of speech coloring pages. I have teamed up with Brain Waves Instruction to bring you and your students these unique and engaging parts of speech coloring pages. Perfect for grades 3 through 8 with a basic version for 2nd grade coming very soon. These coloring pages have three levels; beginner, intermediate and advanced - great for "discreet" differentiation.

Along with our complete resource (see it HERE), we have also created a special FREE SAMPLE for Earth Day using a recycle symbol. You will find a beginner page and an intermediate page included in this FREE sample (see it HERE). At the beginning of every level you will find handouts to use with your students. Use these handouts to go along with your teaching, as a pre-assessment of what students already know, as a fun review, or as a post-assessment at the end of your teaching unit.

We've included a large variety of coloring pages in the full resource including: an apple, bat, turkey, Christmas tree, snowman, mittens, bee, "LOVE" symbol, raindrops and ice cream cone. These pages are selected to be of use throughout the year, featuring images appropriate for your activities during autumn, winter, spring and summer and for some of the major holidays included in those seasons. See it HERE.

Beginner coloring pages: On these coloring pages you will find that words representing the parts of speech are written directly onto the coloring page. Students will identify the part of speech and color it according to the color key at the top of the page.

Beginner pages review 6 parts of speech: noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb and preposition. The FREE SAMPLE resource includes a coloring page featuring the recycle symbol with the same six parts of speech reviewed.

Intermediate coloring pages: For this parts of speech coloring activity students will get two pages. The first page will have a variety of sentences with the part of speech to be identified underlined.

The second page is a coloring page that students will color according to their answers on the first page and the color key at the top of the coloring page.

For example, if the answer to number 1 is "noun," students would color all the "1's" on the coloring page red. If the answer for number 2 (on page 1) is "adjective," students would color all the "2's" on the coloring page (page 2) green. And so on for all colors and spaces on the coloring page.

Intermediate pages review 6 parts of speech: noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb and preposition. There are 16 sentences on each page. You will need to supply students with the colors red, yellow, blue, green, purple and orange in crayons, markers or colored pencils.

Advanced coloring pages: For this parts of speech coloring activity students will have 2 pages, just like the intermediate pages. The first page will have a variety of sentences with a part of speech underlined. The second page is a coloring page that students will color according to their answers on the first page and the color key at the top of the coloring page.

The difference in the advanced pages and the intermediate is that the advanced pages review 8 parts of speech: noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, interjection and conjunction. And there are 20 to 26 sentences per page so students can get more practice. You will need the colors red, yellow, blue, green, purple, orange, light blue and light green in either crayons, markers or colored pencils.

Learning Standards:

Once the page is colored then students can cut out the final design at the bottom of the page and voilá they have a stunning, colorful example of "Pop Art" created from their parts of speech coloring pages. These make for great classroom bulletin board displays!

You can listen to Mary Beth and I talk about this freebie in this fun little video:

FREEBIE: Download the free sample HERE and give it a try right away.

FULL RESOURCE: If you'd like to go ahead and view the full resource you will find it HERE.

Thanks for reading and for making art with your students!

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Parts of Speech Coloring Pages - Art with Jenny K

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Teaching or reviewing parts of speech is a lot of fun with these "Pop Art" parts of speech coloring pages. I have teamed up with Brain Waves Instruction to bring you and your students these unique and engaging parts of speech coloring pages.

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Art-infused resources for every classroom. This website has tons of ideas, freebies and resources for incorporating the arts into the classroom.

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Art with Jenny K - art-infused resources for every classroom

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art-infused resources for every classroom

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7 strategies for using the arts in literacy classes.

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This is a general reading choice board for arts based projects. This can be altered in several different ways by changing the project options, the subject matter, etc.

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General Arts Integrated Choice Board (shared)

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Arts Integrated Choice Board Create an art project related to your book. Your project should accurately develop/analyze story elements such as: characters, setting, themes, main ideas, major events, mood, tone, plot, etc. All projects should be directly related to your book and based on the dir...

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search by topic for arts integrated lessons!

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This website has tons of arts integrated lessons that you can find by searching standards, subjects, grade levels, etc.

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The world's largest resource for K-12 educators using Arts Integration and STEAM. Explore free articles, online courses for PD hours, conferences, workshops, and curriculum.