Includes techniques for one-piece, multi-piece, and how to de sin your own pop-ups.

New Pop-Up Paper Projects is an inspirational book for everyone who wants to learn and share the magic of pop-up paper engineering. Illustrated throughout with colour diagrams and photographs, this book guides you through basic techniques and foundation skills, offers advice on classroom planning and health and safety and shows you how to ensure that learners of all ages can develop and progress their skills. Guiding you through 90-, 180- and 360-degree engineering, this book presents step-by-step instructions and ideas for over 200 cross-curricular themes, from cityscapes to magical creatures. Aiming to challenge and inspire, Paul Johnson uses over 150 paper-engineering techniques, including: storybooks pop-ups without folds zigzag pop-ups pulleys, wheels and levers asymmetrical pop-ups intricate toy theatres diagonal pop-ups with movables. This book, brimming with pop-up techniques and how to teach them, is for everyone – from the self-styled ‘visually illiterate’ to the art graduate, from parents keeping creativity alive at home to classroom teachers planning an engaging curriculum for their class of 30 plus pupils.

What is a paper pop-up? It is more than the best greeting card you can send or receive - it is an ingenious and fun object to be displayed and admired long after other cards have been put away. Step-by-step instructions explain how to make six of the most versatile pop-ups - Fan, Silhouette, Tent, Box, Coil, and Scenery Flats - using a simple cut-and-fold system that requires very little glue. This book contains all you need to create eleven pop-ups, plus templates to trace over and over again for an endless supply of pop-ups. Once you learn the techniques shown, you can make unforgettable cards for all kinds of occasions - birthdays, anniversaries, graduations.

From simple greeting cards to intricate paper creations, this engaging workbook thoroughly explains the mechanics of pop-ups while teaching paper artists of all skill levels to create 10 different designs. Step-by-step, full-color instructions coupled with detailed illustrations enable vibrant floating platforms, tabbed props, and miscellaneous other pop-up effects to be easily constructed. As each section includes perforated pages with preprinted designs and directions, scissors and glue are all one needs for nearly instantaneous pop-up creations.

With over 30 inspirational projects detailing a range of 3-D papercraft card designs for any occasion, Pop-Up Cards has something for everyone.

The techniques of creating pop-up forms are demonstrated in a series of practical lessons. The book also suggests ways in which pop-up forms can be used to enrich the study of English and art, and contains illustrations of childrens work.

Practical plans for teacher and taught in creative work with pop-up paper forms. Nicely produced with many color photos of student work and clear line drawings illustrating construction. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR