DIY: How to Print Tarpapel Using MS Excel Program

Teachers are sometimes facing a problem in finding instructional materials as their teaching aids or for their posters needed to support the coverage of their teaching for a particular unit within the school year. Learning is facilitated when there is a graphic presentation of the subject or skill to be learned.

Solution has been reached and tarpapel is the answer. This is made of a certain graphic design printed on several pieces of paper and is being patched one by one to form like a poster or streamer. When you look at it in a distance, it resembles to a tarpaulin. It is a do-it-yourself graphic tool for lesson presentation, for attractive bulletin board display, among others.

I have once made it by using of MS Word - Making Tarpapel Using MS Word. This time MS Excel is to used. With the permission of Mam Eda Fabale-Ponsaran, creator and admin of TAGA DEPED AKO REGION VI (WESTERN VISAYAS) in the Facebook, I have presented here those procedures on how to print Tarpapel by using the MS Excel program which is posted in FB on June 15, 2015.

DIY: Making Tarpapel Using MS Word

My First Tarpapel (3x3)

Classroom teachers are usually spending their own money for visual aids, bulletin board display, poster and even tarpaulin.

But for all you know, they're resourceful. They have invented an economic, do-it-yourself visual aids or the like. And they call it "Tarpapel"

Tarpapel is made of a certain graphic design printed on several pieces of paper and is being patched one by one to form like a poster or streamer. When you look at it in a distance, it resembles to a tarpaulin. It is a do-it-yourself graphic tool for lesson presentation, for attractive bulletin board display, among others.

I had tried making one. For the first time, I created 3x3 "Back to School" poster.