Creating Children's Pop-up Books

Overview

“In this lesson we will let our imagination fly and we will start to invent our story. First I am going to tell you the origin of the idea on which my project is going to revolve and explain how to find yours. Then I'll get to creating my first characters and locations and I'll show you how to bring these characters to life with turning mechanisms. These can help you a lot to create all kinds of stories for the little ones.”

In this video lesson Silvia Hijano Coullaut addresses the topic: Invent: shape your ideas 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Children's Pop-up Books. Learn how to create a pop-up book step by step for the little ones to enjoy, from the initial concept to assembling the pieces.

Partial transcription of the video

“Invent: give shape to your ideas We are going to make the process more fun, which is to invent. You will always find many stimuli because they say: "How do you get inspired?" You are inspired by your surroundings, by everything you see. So I was thinking what theme to give to our book, to our project. It was clear to me, as I have told you about the character of the book, that it was a gamebook. I want the children to interact and the older ones too to generate a link to the book. But I want it to have a social character. In my case, I am often inspired by the news that I see in newspapers....”

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Course summary for: Creating Children's Pop-up Books

• Level: Beginner
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• 5665 students
• 4 units
• 22 lessons (4h 20m)
• 27 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, Children's Literature, Creating with Kids, Editorial Design, Paper Craft