How to Make Pop-Up Books

Making pop-up books can be an interesting task to do. These books with fascinating pictures can be used to illustrate stories. If you too want to demonstrate interesting stories to your kid in an exciting way, then try making a pop-up book.

Here are some instructions that will help you to understand how you can make pop- up books with some really interesting pop-up covers.

Instructions on How to Make Pop-Up Books

1. Take two 9×12 pieces of construction papers and fold them into halves. Now take one paper and locate a dot at the center of the folded edge.
2. Draw a line from the marked dot to the outer edge of the paper.
3. Using a pair of scissors cut through the line, starting from the folded edge. Fold back the flaps created by cutting. Fold them back such that they form two triangles.
4. Open the flaps again and also open the whole page. Now, hold the paper in such manner that it appears like a tent. Place your finger at the top of the triangle and carefully push it down so that the triangle is pushed through to the other side of the paper.
5. Now put your finger at the bottom of the paper triangle and repeat the same thing. You will notice that top and bottom triangles will be pushed out to form a mouth inside the card.
6. Whenever you open or close the card, the mouth will simultaneously open and close and it will seem that it’s talking.
7. You can now draw a person or an animal or even a monster around the mouth and glue the inside and outside pages together. But make sure you do not apply any glue in the area with pop-up mouth. Your cover for your book is ready.
8. Now you can add pages to your cover. Decide how many pages you want to include and fold each paper into halves. Put glue inside the folded edges of the paper and attach the pages together. Allow them to dry.
9. Select your story and pen it down in these pages, only when dried properly. While writing the stories on the inside pages, you can leave spaces for adding pop-up characters.
10. Now cut out interesting characters for your story and decide which characters will be pasted on each page. Make sure to leave some space at the bottom of the characters.
11. Carefully glue these characters into the story. Make sure you fold the bottom of each character and then add a little glue on it. Press them firmly so that they get properly fixed. Continue the process for other characters on other pages of the book.

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