Presidential Pockets

Today, to celebrate President's Day, we made Presidential Pockets.

They could, however, be made for any famous person.

 We just took a piece of construction paper and folded it in half.

 We snipped off the corners of the bottom to resemble a pocket from a coat.

 Unfold and cut off about an inch and a half from one side.

 When you refold it together, the top flap can be folded down...

 to resemble a coat pocket. It also helps to keep anything you might want to put in it...more about that in a minute. You can glue the edges together to make the pocket able to hold things.

notebooking page from the The Notebooking Fairy.

 Your pocket can fit on a notebooking page. This is a smaller pocket to leave room for some writing on the same page.

 One student chose to embellish his pocket and chose not to glue down the sides.

One student chose to make a President Washington pocket, so he included pictures of a cherry, a bullet and some hard tack to represent the Revolutionary War and The Declaration of Independence.

It made a little lapbook-type folder this way. In it we pictures of items that represent the person the pocket is about. Since that student's pocket was more like a folder, he glued his items down. If you choose to make it like a pocket, you can have loose items. They can be real items if they are small and flat, such as a button or a piece of yarn or cloth or you can draw the items and cut them out.