Pond water contains some living creatures that are so small they can be seen only with a microscope. Some of these creatures are made of only one cell, such as a paramecium. This tiny water critter is often called a “slipper animal” because it looks like the sole of a shoe.
Paramecium move around in their watery environment by fluttering hair-like structures called cilia that cover the outside of their bodies.
Question:
How can I made a model of a paramecium?
Answer:
Following are instructions for making a paper model of a slipper animal. The white paper fringe represents the cilia. The glitter spot represents its control center, which is called the nucleus.
Slipper Animals
1. Set 
a large shoe on a sheet of white construction paper. Set a smaller shoe on green paper. Note: The shoes need to both be left or right shoes. small shoe on the red paper.
2. Draw around the sole of each shoe.
3. Cut the sole shape from each piece of paper.
4. Cover the edge of the underside of the small green paper sole with glue.
5. Place the red sole shape on the white sole shape so that the red shape is centered on the white shape.
6. With the scissors, cut slits in the white paper extending from under the green sole shape. You want to make fringe around the entire edge of the white paper.
7. Pace a spot of glue about as large as a quarter in the center of the red sole.
8. Cover the spot of glue with glitter.
9. Cover the white sole shape with glue, and then lay in the center of a green sheet of paper.
10. Add the labels as shown in the diagram.
The paramecium experiment on this page is from:
Janice VanCleave’s
Play and Find Out About Nature
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