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3D Stegosaurus Paper Model Activity

1) The document provides instructions to assemble a 3D paper model of a Stegosaurus dinosaur. It lists the materials needed and has 11 steps to cut out templates and glue the pieces together to form the body, tail, back plates, head, and posture of the Stegosaurus. 2) The instructions guide the reader to fold lines on the templates, glue tabs together in the correct order to connect the body, and attach the characteristic bony plates on its back. 3) When completed, the paper model will resemble the Stegosaurus dinosaur with its distinctive shape and features reconstructed in 3D form from cut and assembled paper templates.

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3D Stegosaurus Paper Model Activity

1) The document provides instructions to assemble a 3D paper model of a Stegosaurus dinosaur. It lists the materials needed and has 11 steps to cut out templates and glue the pieces together to form the body, tail, back plates, head, and posture of the Stegosaurus. 2) The instructions guide the reader to fold lines on the templates, glue tabs together in the correct order to connect the body, and attach the characteristic bony plates on its back. 3) When completed, the paper model will resemble the Stegosaurus dinosaur with its distinctive shape and features reconstructed in 3D form from cut and assembled paper templates.

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Instructions for 3D

Stegosaurus Paper Model


Follow these simple instructions to make your
stegosaurus model.
You will need:

The three templates A pair of scissors Some glue


(on two pages)
What to do:
First, cut out the three templates. You need to cut carefully along the
1 solid black lines.

Now, fold all of the ‘dotted lines’ and the ‘dotted and dashed lines’ on
2 each template. Be careful! The dotted lines fold down (a hill fold) and
the dotted and dashed lines fold up (a valley fold).
Follow this diagram.

Take the long template. Make the mouth


3 by glueing tabs 1 and 2 to each side.

Now take the two other templates.


4 Glue the ends of their tails together,
as shown.

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Now join these two templates to the
5 first one by adding glue to shapes 3 and
4, as shown.

Make the back of the stegosaurus next.


6 Glue tab 5 to the side. Repeat on the
other side with tab 6.

Continue along the back. Glue tabs 7


7 and 8 to the sides, then tabs 9 and 10.

Curve the top of the model and glue tab


8 11 inside the head. Repeat on the other
side with tab 12.

Now look at your model’s back. Did You Know…?


9 Glue shapes 13 and 14 to put Stegosaurus means ‘roofed
the plates onto its back. lizard’. 200 years ago,
palaeontologists (people who
Glue the backs of the curve study fossils) thought that the
10 together. bony plates on its back were
flat, like tiles on a roof. Now,
we believe that the plates
Finally, add glue to tabs 15 and pointed upwards.
11 16 to finish the model’s head.

You have finished your stegosaurus model!

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