Accordion Fold

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Accordion Fold

A way to fold paper in which one makes at least two parallel creases such that there are at least three equally sized folds. This is used in marketing literature, especially in direct mail, to compact as much information as possible into a small, easily deliverable space.

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2 - Make 11/2-inch wide accordion folds, creasing each fold.

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A third of people (31 percent) create a "snowball," while 28 percent fold it into squares, 15 percent wrap their entire hand and 14 percent perform accordion folds along the dotted lines.

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With models of accordion-fold books and instructional handouts close at hand (see handout example), students folded long pieces of tag board into accordion folds, then glued three pieces together to make a twelve-page book.

Surrealism, one page at a time: how do you learn about an important movement in art history, break away from the two-dimensional format that students often get too much of, combine elements of fine art and craft, and end up with a very special object that students can hold in their hands and show proudly to their friends? My eighth graders did it by creating one-of-a-kind accordion-fold books, using Surrealism as their jumping-off point