Design Squad
Pop Up Cards
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How to make cool pop-up cards!
Get creative with paper engineering and delight your friends and family with cards that work in surprising ways.
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Design Squad
Pop Up Cards
Clip | 2m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Get creative with paper engineering and delight your friends and family with cards that work in surprising ways.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Hi, I'm Deysi from Design Squad, and I'm here with: Today, we're making pop-up cards.
SAM: Pop-up cards work by cutting or folding or both, and putting it together and compressing the folds, and when you open them, the designs pop out.
REED: One of the cards is the triangle.
When you open it up, this part pops out.
SAM: You cut slits right here, fold it in half, and then pop this out.
When you open the card, the part that pops up is this floating box.
This is a box pop-up.
When I unfold the card, this box pops up.
Wooop!
SAM: When it's folded, it's compressed, and when you open it, it's released.
DEYSI: When you fold the paper, you're creating an area of weakness.
That means it can bend at that crease line.
DEYSI: We're making the paper bend in a predictable way.
This is your standard take-out food box.
It's a great invention that uses the folding paper idea.
It starts as a flat piece of cardboard.
People have put folds and cuts into it.
You fold, and there's a box.
That's pretty cool.
We're going to show Sophia and Mariam our cards.
Awesome!
When Sam opened the card, some of the things he put in it pops up.
And in first place...
Cool!
(applause) It's Deysi Air!
Cool!
Instructions on how to make your own pop-up cards are on the Design Squad website.
Isn't this cool?
Yeah.
It really looks like the sun's going back behind the hills.
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