How to Create Popup Book
While you are able to find popup books at most local bookstores, creating your own popup book can allow children to use their imaginations to customize the book with people, animals and other characters of their choice. Making popup books can also help to promote story-telling and drawing skills. Since popup books are inexpensive to make and use materials that many people already have at home, this is a project that families can do nearly any time.
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Instructions
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Instructions
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Draw and cut out the characters you would like to have in your story using the construction paper, pencil, markers, and crayons. Put these aside for later, once they have been cut out and colored.
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Fold a new piece of construction paper horizontally, making sure that the two ends of the paper line up with each other before completing the fold.
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Open the now folded construction paper and use the pencil to draw a line along the crease on the inside.
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Draw square boxes along the line, with half of the box being above the line and the other half of the box being below the line. How many boxes you draw will depend on how many pop-ups you would like to have on the page.
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Cut slits along the vertical lines of the boxes you have drawn.
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Turn the construction paper around and push in the paper where it is cut with your finger. Refold the paper horizontally along its original crease. This should create boxes that pop out when you open the paper.
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Open up the construction paper and color in the background for this page of your pop-up book. Use the markers to write any sentences you would like to appear on the page.
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Glue the characters you made earlier onto the pop up boxes located inside of the folded construction paper.
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Repeat steps 3-8 until you have all the pages of your book completed.
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Glue the bottom outside portion of each page to the upper outside portion of the page that comes after it, to compile the pages into one book.
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Write the title of your popup book on the upper outside portion of the first page to complete the project.
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Tips & Warnings
Make no more than three pop-up boxes on one page to avoid having a cluttered pop-up book.
References
- Photo Credit Portrait of a styled children. Theme: education.. image by Andrey Kiselev from Fotolia.com
