MEMORY POP-UP BOOK PROJECT for FAMILIES With PS22Q.6

 

MEMORY POP-UP BOOK PROJECT for FAMILIES

With PS22Q grades 2-5

Wednesday June 2, 2021

Blog 6

Spica and I were excited to meet our new students today who have registered for our next Pop-Up Book Project for Families; Andy, Lilia, Dineth, Karina, Chloe, Dionela and her little sister Dianella. They will learn lots of techniques to make a pop-up book about their home. A big thank you to Ms. Xerras who teaches grade 5 and Ms. McGinn who teaches grade 4 for supporting our class today. It was fun to see Ms. McGinn again and also meet some of her students.

Warming up our imaginations is important so we used our bodies to create pop-ups by expanding our faces, hands and arms. Next we checked to make sure everyone had the necessary materials for the project - colored construction paper, white copy paper, pencil, eraser, ruler, glue stick, scissors and magazines, newspapers or clean paper from the recycle bin. 

Participants made their Base Page, which they’ll begin with each week. Next they learnt how to make a V Fold stand, the necessary mechanism which makes the image pop-up from the page. This can be a little tricky, but our students all made it in record time. The first page features their home, which can be an apartment building or a house. Students learnt that the apartment building is drawn on the paper turned vertically while a house is drawn on horizontally placed paper. One of the most important rules when making a pop-up page is that nothing juts out of the closed page. They checked their houses and trimmed where necessary. The other main rule is that the page closes flat. 

Collage is a method we use a lot, so the students cut out small geometric shapes from four different colored pieces of construction paper. Some of these shapes were used today, however we encouraged them to keep all the shapes they cut out as we will be using this collage method again in subsequent weeks. 

Now the creativity begins! And what a surprising and colorful array of houses the students designed. Chloe’s red apartment building featured blue, lilac and pink windows. She topped it off with a striped blue and pink pediment. Andy designed a house out of orange construction paper with a green roof and green windows, he added a chimney as well. Dineth’s apartment building is really abstract. He chose a color palette of orange, blues and red. Dionela drew brickwork on her red apartment building then used tape to attach the windows. We admire her Mum’s adaptability as she didn’t have a glue stick! 

Karina also chose to abstract her apartment building using cleverly colored white paper which she cut into geometric shapes to represent the floors and windows. Lilia chose orange colored paper for her apartment building then cut squares of yellow to create the windows and added a blue door. She used a strip of pink paper as the pediment.  We were also joined by Dionela’s sister Dianella who’s in grade 3 and her Mum was helping her make her home. 

There is never enough time, and we stayed after 6pm as the students shared other drawings they had created, especially Chloe, who drew the animated Amongus character, Andy shared his snow truck, Karina’s character, one of the many drawings in her book of artwork and Dionela’s carrot, which she sculptured from special clay. What a group of multi-talented artists! We can’t wait to see what each of them will make next week.