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- Hi, I'm Jiéyì, I am an artist and a teaching artist.
That means that I get to share my
art form with people like you.
I like to make art a lot of different ways.
Sometimes I dance, sometimes I play with technology,
but one thing I really love is playing with paper.
So today we're gonna work on some paper magic
and make some pop-ups together.
I want to share something that I
started working on earlier.
So, in this book I have a bird with a mouth that opens
and a tongue inside. On the next page,
there is a volcano and on the third page
there is a snake with an egg.
So there's a couple different ways
that people make pop-ups. One
method is called subtractive, and that means
that you're cutting into the paper to
make a shape. So in this first example,
the mouth of the bird is made by cutting into
the paper, but there's also an additive method
which is gluing on the tongue.
And the next piece, the volcano is made
by adding a second piece of paper.
So this is an additive method.
And in the third piece, this snake is also
made by adding another piece of paper on top.
So the first thing I'm gonna teach
you is a subtractive shape. This is one
of the first shapes that people learn.
To get started, you're gonna need some materials.
So you need a pencil, glue, scissors,
and something to color with. Markers are good,
colored pencils are good, if you
have crayons those are great, too.
I also have an eraser 'cuz sometimes I like to
erase my lines but it's okay if you don't have that.
So, what you need is paper that's a little
bit thicker than regular paper, like card stock.
If you don't have card stock at home, that's okay,
if you get thicker paper in the mail,
like leaflets, you can use that.
You can also use a paper bag, or even just
regular notebook paper or printer paper.
So, I'm gonna start by using about half a sheet of paper.
And to make half a sheet of paper I am
going to fold my paper in half.
Then I'm gonna use the back of my
marker to get an extra good crease.
And right now I am going to go ahead and cut along
the crease so I have half a sheet.
This first method, you're gonna start
by folding your paper in half.
Like this. And so your pop-up is gonna go in the middle.
The next thing that we're gonna do is we want to
make some lines for where we're gonna cut.
So I'm gonna draw with my pencil two parallel lines.
And I'm gonna cut along these lines.
I can open up my paper to make sure
that I drew in the right place.
So I want my lines to be in the middle, not on the edge.
Now, I can go ahead and cut along here, and along here.
When I open it, it doesn't pop up yet!
So what I need to do is push in with my fingers and then
pull in and pull down. I can use
my marker to get an extra good crease again.
And when I open it, it pops up like this.
So, in here I wanna add something,
'cuz this is pretty plain, right?
It's just a square that pops up?
So, I'm gonna start by adding in another piece.
So, I started to make a sailboat.
And I'm gonna continue coloring this before I add it in.
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And now what I want to do is I'm going to
glue it on to one of these flaps.
So, I'm gonna flatten this out all the way
and I want to put my glue in this bottom part here
because this is the part that pops up.
So I'm going to put a little bit of glue right here.
And it's just on this bottom part.
And now, I want to add my sailboat right here.
I can close it a little bit open it to add that piece in.
Now it looks like this!
It also looks like my sailboat sticks
out a little bit, that's okay.
And maybe there are other things I want to add to this
like maybe I want to add some waves.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and use my pencils to
add the ocean in the background.
It's a little bit harder for me to color this
because I glued this on before I started coloring.
So what some people do is they make a
prototype first, which means that they start
a piece but they don't add all the color.
And then they do it again where they can add all the color.
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And it looks like this.
The next piece that I'm gonna try is an additive piece.
So this process is pretty similar, where you
wanna start with half a sheet of paper, and fold it in half.
And this one I'm gonna use a spiral that I add on top.
So this one is pretty similar to
this piece where there's a spiral that I add on top.
So to make this one, what I want is a second sheet of paper.
And the second sheet of paper needs to be able to fit into
half of your page, so this needs
to be smaller than this amount.
And I can see that this scrap of paper's
a little bit bigger, so I'm gonna go ahead
and draw with my pencil where I am going to make my cut.
That way I know it'll fit inside.
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To make your spiral, I start by drawing my spiral.
So this is what a spiral looks like.
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I'm just following the line.
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I'm also gonna cut off these edges.
And I don't need this part either, so I'm
gonna go ahead and cut it off right here.
So this is my spiral piece like this.
To attach this, what you wanna do
is glue one part down on this side
and one part to the other side.
That can be a little tricky to do, so I'm
gonna start by gluing just this part right
here in the center of the spiral.
So I put my glue down in the center of the spiral.
And now I'm gonna glue this piece in.
I wanna make sure that this flappy side
is on the far side of the paper.
That way it'll line up over here.
It'll make sure that your spiral's a lot bigger.
So, I'm rubbing this so it's nice and stuck.
Then, I'm gonna put a little bit of glue right here.
So now what I wanna do is I wanna
glue it to the opposite side.
And the way I'm gonna do that is just by
folding my paper and rubbing this.
And I want to wait a little bit for it to dry.
So I'm gonna go ahead and push it over here
and put some markers on top of it
so that it has some time to dry.
I started on a spiral already earlier,
and so this spiral looks like this.
And so now I can decide what I wanna put inside of it.
With my snake, I went ahead and colored all of it
before I cut it out, um, but it's pretty,
sometimes it's easier if you glue this in first
just to get an idea of what's gonna happen.
So for this one, I'm gonna go ahead and add something else.
Maybe I could do a snake or maybe I
could do something different. Do you
have any ideas of what you might do?
So I think for me what I want to do is
a ball of yarn that is unraveling.
So I'm gonna go ahead and take my pencil and
use this to color in the outside of my page.
And I'm noticing that it's actually
really really tricky to draw on here, um,
because I have a piece that's already stuck on there.
So what I might notice is that maybe
it's easier if I color it first before I glue it on.
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So if you have a good idea of how you wanna do
your drawing, you might be able to do it before
you glue it in.
So this is what my ball of yarn looks like.
And maybe I can continue drawing off of the page
and I want this to end in a bow, like that.
If I wanted, I could add other things into here, too.
So I could glue other shapes on.
And this could be a lot of different things.
It could be a tornado, or it could be,
it could be a worm, or it could be a galaxy.
There are lots of different options that you could do.
The next piece I want to show you is
another subtractive shape. So this subtractive
shape is pretty similar to the mouth of this bird.
So to make this piece, again you want to start
with half of a sheet of paper.
You can start by folding your paper in half,
and I'm gonna use a marker again to crease it.
And then I have something like this.
And this shape can be a little bit tricky.
So what you wanna do is you wanna start by, um,
drawing a line. So I'm gonna draw a line
that goes like this
and so this is diagonal.
And if I do this diagonal line,
then I'll see that it looks like this, and when I push in
here it doesn't really push in the same way, right?
If I'm pushing straight out. So what I wanna do
is hold the paper so that I'm supporting it
and push this in diagonally. So I'm
gonna push this in diagonally like this
and close it. So this part is pretty tricky.
But when I open it, I can see that this
actually opens at a diagonal, too.
So this would be the same as the
top of the mouth of the bird and if I added
a second one in, I could make it into a bird, too.
But there are other things that
I might want to add here instead.
So are there any ideas about
what you think you could add?
I think for me, what I want to do is try
and add some more shapes on top of this.
So, I think this could be a lot of different things.
Maybe what I could do is cut off
part of it to change the shape.
So right now, this is a whole shape like this.
But what I could do is push this back
out or fold this the other way.
And cut part of it off, so I'm gonna
cut part of it this way, like this.
And when I push this back in there's
actually sort of a flap part right here.
And now what I wanna do is I wanna make some cat ears.
And so I'm gonna go ahead and draw some ears separately.
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So now I am going to cut my ears out.
And there's a little bit of extra, so that way
you can have some space to glue in.
So again I'm going to use my glue
on this little bit of extra space.
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And this ear is going to
glue in like this.
And this ear is going to
glue in over here.
And now I have my cat like this.
And if I want, I can add some more details.
Like maybe I want my cat to be lying down.
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So now my piece looks like this
where I have my cat head
and it pops up like this.
So each of these were pop-up cards.
If you wanted to make it into a pop-up book
there's a couple ways that you could go about it.
So, one way is that you could take the pieces
that you made and glue them together, back to back.
So maybe I want to start with this piece and this piece
and I wanna glue this part to that part.
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So now I have a book with one page
and two pages and then I could add more, too.
I could add my sailboat into here.
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So now I have a pop-up and we have our flap with our flower.
And we have our cat
and we have our sailboat.
So those are just a couple of ways to make pop-ups
there's lots of other ways. And when I'm making
pop-ups I make mistakes a lot.
And that means that sometimes I
start making something and I come up with an idea
but realize I want to do it a little bit differently.
So after I try things out a couple of times I
will, um, try making it again after I've made some changes.
There are many, many ways to make pop-ups.
You can use some of the ways that we've tried today.
You can also try new ways.
See if you cut things out at different
angles, if you can make new shapes.
If you cut things out where the lines are, one is
longer than another, it might make another shape, too!
You can also try adding on new pieces and I would
love to see the creative things that you come up with.
Thank you so much for playing with me.
I'm Jiéyì and I love working with paper.