PS120Q Pop-Up Page Making Workshop

 PS120Q Pop-Up Page Making Workshop

6/14/21

Spica and I want to thank Ms. Jacqueline Momoh, Assistant Principal PS 120Q and Ms. Yu-Hsien (Sandy) Wu, Parent Coordinator for supporting our pop-up page making workshop for PS120Q students and their families. We gratefully appreciate Flushing Town Hall’s ongoing enthusiastic support of our projects, Gabrielle Hamilton, Director of Education & Public Programs Haihong Chen, Education & Public Programs Administrator and Sio Man Lam, Education & Public Programs Coordinator. 

 

It is always great to see families working together and today’s class was no exception, with Jayden in grade 4 and his sister Jaelyn, in grade 1 joining us. We also welcomed Yu, Angelia and Justin. We warmed up our imaginations and our bodies with a pop-up game and checked we had all the materials necessary for the workshop. 

 

Spica and I shared samples of a Home Pop-Up Page, featuring either an apartment building or a house and asked the children to think about the home they live in now, or their dream home. Students made their Base Page by folding, hamburger style, a piece of colored construction paper. Next, they took a piece of white paper, folded and cut it in half. This will be placed horizontally if their home is a house or vertically if they are going to make an apartment building. They folded a tab and used the rest of the paper to draw their home, then cut it out.

 

In order to make the home pop-up a mechanism called a V Fold Stand needs to be built. This is easily done by folding the finished drawing in half and cutting a small triangle out of the tab up to the center folding line. Now they have a free-standing home, which they can glue into their base page. Spica demonstrated how to carefully glue the tabs into place and the students were excited to see their home pop-up once they opened their Base Page. 

 

Students thought about what could be outside their home. They cut another piece of white paper to size, folded the tab, drew their object and cut it out. Next, they decided where on the page they should glue it in relation to their home. 

 

Angelia drew a brownstone with stairs leading up to a brown door. She selected some windows to color blue and focused the viewer’s attention on one in particular which had curtains and a held vase of flowers. She added a red car as the object outside her home. Jayden’s apartment building featured a fire escape and lots of windows. Jaelyn used a purple marker to draw her apartment building which she personalized with the number 351 on the door. She added windows of different sizes and shapes. Outside her home she added a tree. Justin chose orange construction paper for his Base Page and drew his apartment building on green paper. His apartment featured many windows in a regular grid pattern, which he then colored blue. He added a tree with green leaves and a brown trunk next to this building and created a stand to help it stand up. Yu drew a two-storey house with a tilted yellow roof. She cleverly drew this in perspective, adding texture by coloring with purple lines. The yellow windows were surrounded by blue frames. Next to the house she added a pop-up drawing of a young pig-tailed girl in a purple dress and matching shoes. This oversized girl helped tell the story of her home. 

 

These young people very quickly adapted the techniques they learnt to create beautiful and unique Home Pop-Up Pages. We hope they use them to tell many personal stories.