Creating Children's Pop-up Books

Overview

“In this lesson I will explain how to join the pages you have built. As you will see, it is very important to balance the thickness of the spine and that of the front cut of the book so that it is not so unbalanced and works well. So I'll teach you how to assemble it with bellows to make up for this unevenness.”

In this video lesson Silvia Hijano Coullaut (Libracos) addresses the topic: Assembly, 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

“In this lesson. we are going to learn how to gather the pages. we will assemble them together. It's a very important moment because we need to combine everything we've done so far. It's also crucial to determine if our book needs gussets or not. They are small strips of paper that give us space in the spine. Why? Because we have much more distance between the spine and the end of the book. If we glue everything. the spine will end up too tight. and since we have many elements. it will become very bulky. Therefore. some books don't need it because they might have mechanisms that are much fla...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (85)
• 6540 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