Immigration Journal for 5th Graders

This is the second year I have done this journal project with fifth graders in Saratoga Springs. I wrote about it last year, but in less detail than I plan to write about it today. This workshop day was requested by the school's reading specialist, who had done a similar project on her own with…

V-Pockets Book Cover

        Last Sunday morning  I was trying out different ways of folding 11" x 17" paper to make a folded book cover.  When the structure that I've drawn out in the document above appeared in my hands I was so excited that I kept making one right after the other, and, thus began my Off…

Blizzard Book, Post #3: Pages

  This is the third of my posts about the Blizzard Book, a folded paper design by Hedi Kyle.  Since I just taught a class on how to create this book I have been able to indulge my great interest in different approaches to the papers, proportions, and covers of Blizzard Books. My last post showed the Blizzard Book as…

Blizzard Books, Post #2: Card Carrier

Card Carrying Blizzard Books I am dedicating a few posts to showing and writing about the Blizzard Book, a book design developed by Hedi Kyle. This structure changes dramatically depending on many factors, including the proportions of the paper used. Because of its challenging nature, I can wrap my mind around just a few attributes of…