Creating Children's Pop-up Books

Overview

“In this lesson I will start the general structure of the second page. In this case, the fair of the fishing village. To do this, I will make a W mechanism with some extensions with an origami fold that will fill the page horizontally. The center piece will also have a horizontal grid that will give it height. In the scene you will see a decadent carnival inspired by Zoltar's machine from the movie Big and a large roller coaster. ”

In this video lesson Silvia Hijano Coullaut addresses the topic: Page 2: Fair, 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

“Page 2: Fair Let's start with the next lesson. We'll do page two and what we are going to do is a V mechanism that has a grid that supports another piece behind. It also has a vertical and horizontal grid and then we will do an origami folding for the sides. We are going to fill this page a lot horizontally. As you can see, this page, instead of having cracks, what it has is some marks. Here goes this piece, which is the one on the back, and then Zoltar's head will go. This is one of the few pieces that are assembled by guiding before closing. If we leave the roller coasters a little to the...”

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

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 22 lessons (4h 20m)
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• Category

  Craft

• Areas

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