How Do You Make Cartoons Out Of Paper?
Children can design their own cartoon strips using plain blank paper. Make a template with comic boxes, then fill the boxes with a story told in simple pictures and some speech bubbles. This is a great activity to teach children about beginning, middles and ends of stories and to show them how pictures can tell a story. Lay the ruler horizontally across the middle of a paper that is oriented so the longest sides are at the top and bottom. Draw a line above the ruler in pen. Fold the paper in half, vertically, so the two shorter sides touch. Crease. Fold again, vertically. Crease and unfold all the folds. Lay the ruler against the first fold and draw a vertical line in pen. Repeat with the other two folds. You should now have six even rectangles. These are the spaces in which to draw the different parts of the cartoon. Draw a picture that tells a story or a joke, drawing first in plain pencil to sketch out the drawings. Add thought and speech bubbles to show what the cartoon characters
