ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|10 pages

Making 90-degree pop-ups

chapter 2|2 pages

Vertical boxes

chapter 3|2 pages

Horizontal boxes

chapter 4|4 pages

Angled pop-ups

chapter 5|4 pages

Angled pop-ups with additions

chapter 6|4 pages

Geometric pop-ups

chapter 7|5 pages

Asymmetrical pop-ups

Vertical

chapter 8|3 pages

Asymmetrical pop-ups

Horizontal

chapter 9|4 pages

Story books

chapter 10|6 pages

Hanging pop-up books

chapter 11|6 pages

Making 180-degree pop-ups

chapter 12|3 pages

Magic rainbows

chapter 13|3 pages

More magic rainbows

chapter 14|4 pages

Combining pop-ups

chapter 15|4 pages

Zigzag pop-ups

chapter 16|3 pages

Projected pop-ups

chapter 17|3 pages

All creatures great and small

chapter 18|4 pages

Houses

chapter 19|3 pages

Cubes and pyramids

chapter 20|2 pages

Constructing with boxes

chapter 21|4 pages

Cars, boats and planes

chapter 22|3 pages

Pop-up pictures

chapter 23|3 pages

Diagonal pop-ups

chapter 25|3 pages

Bracketed diagonal pop-ups

chapter 26|3 pages

Single sheet 180-degree pop-ups

chapter 27|7 pages

Pop-ups without folds

chapter 28|9 pages

Paper mechanics

chapter 29|2 pages

Star books

chapter 30|2 pages

Tunnel books

chapter 31|3 pages

Carousel books

chapter 32|5 pages

Visual stories

chapter 33|5 pages

Making books