How to Make a Three Fourths Book

Start with any square or rectangle of paper. This book works fine with copy paper or cardstock. Your closed book will be one fourth the size of your original piece of paper.



Fold your paper into fourths.



Cut out one fourth and discard it. Fold the book as you desire! It's that simple.



Here's the folded/closed book.



The first flap opened.



The book totally open.

You can use the three fourths book as a base for other minibooks. Here I've placed the four corner minibooks inside a three fourths book.

For a PDF page with directions for making a three-fourths, book click here.

This type of minibook will work with lots of different fraction divisions. Here's another example.

Fold a piece of paper into thirds and then into half. Cut away two sixths (one third) of the paper.



Here's how this book opens up.