FAMILY ALBUM POP-UP BOOK MAKING @ QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY.5 8/9/2021

 







QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY - CREATIVE AGING PROGRAM

FAMILY ALBUM POP-UP BOOK MAKING

Blog 5 8/09/21

We were pleased to see some new students in our class today and welcomed back regulars. Diane shared her table and chair page with us, a surprise birthday party room. She cleverly recycled a keepsake birthday card to create the background which became a large banner declaring,” Happy Birthday”. She placed a three-tiered cake on the table under which was a patterned doilie. She made two small, wrapped presents which she glued to the foreground behind the table. On the other V Fold stand, she glued two chairs, a large purple one with a patterned seat and the other a small child’s green chair. Both had intricately carved legs and backs. 

Maureen shared the inspiration for her page, the story her mother talked about jumping on the table when her brother said a mouse was in the room.

This week we made a memorable bedroom. To warm up our imaginations we played a word association game about bedrooms, which Karen initiated with the word quilt and other students added the first word they thought of when they think, “bedroom”, such as dream, and sleep. 

After folding the base page, students selected cardstock for their wall. We revised how to make an inverted V Fold and students decorated it with textured paper as wallpaper and added other decorative or structural elements. Next, they made a bed using the same principle taught last week, however this time the box was rectangular in shape. They designed the bed head and base board and glued them onto the bed. Spica also demonstrated how to make bunk beds using a similar method. The beds were then dressed in pillows and sheets. 

Other furniture in the bedroom could be a wardrobe, made using the “flap” method taught in Session 2, a bureau, chest of drawers or dressing table. I shared my bedroom page, which was a memory from my childhood, featuring a bed and dressing table, in “Queen Anne” style and a wall of posters above my bed. Spica demonstrated how to build a dresser using the parallelogram method. Once students finished their furniture, they decided which side of the wall to place it, carefully gluing it to ensure the bed and dresser will pop-up from the wall when the page is opened. 

Yun is always willing to share what she made in class, and we were thrilled to see her choice of a yellow wall to which she glued a pink bed with a blue bedhead. On the other side she made a matching blue dresser. Great job Yun!

Let your creativity run wild and decorate the floor, with a mat or carpet and the walls.






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