A Nod to Making Pop-Ups

How to make 2 basic Pop-ups

Since I have devoted my last few posts to pop-ups,  I’ve decided to put together a brief introduction to this magical bit of paper engineering.  There are many fabulous in-depth resources to making pop-ups: this post is not one of those. Instead, I offer here a couple of introductory type of handouts.

For in-depth looks at pop-ups visit

• http://www.popularkinetics.com/making_page.html  This is Carol Barton’s site. Back in the late 1980′s I took my first class in pop-ups with Carol at The Center for Book Arts. Since that time she has taught pop-ups world-wide and has written a couple of fun, colorful books on the subject.
• http://www.robertsabuda.com/popmakesimple.asp A discussion of pop-ups just can not be had without mentioning Robert Sabuda. The first book I saw of his was an all white Christmas Alphabet book: awe-inspiring.
• http://www.origami-resource-center.com/pop-up-card-heart.html This is mostly an origami site, but it has a few pop-ups, and I like the simple, straight forward  way the directions are laid out.

I’ve dug into my archives and pulled out the reference page below that I created at a time long ago.

A Pop-Ups reference page

For a look at pages of pop-ups done by elementary age students, take a look at my last three posts

• http://bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/basis-pop-ups-at-the-end-of-the-summer/
• http://bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/1674/
• http://bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/basis-and-moveable-books-at-bancroft-library-in-salem/