Make your own pop-up book

For my #toyback, I decided to hack a book. Specifically, I took a conventional children’s book and made it into a pop-up book.

Here were some resources I found useful:

• Pop-up mechanisms – part 1 and part 2
• http://www.ehow.com/how_4702538_make-own-popup-books.html
• http://www.inhabitots.com/make-your-diy-book-projects-pop/
  http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Pop-up-Book

Not being artistic, I made color copies of illustrations in the book and used those to make the pop-up cutouts. I pasted the copies onto cardboard and then did the cutouts as per the first two links above.

And here’s the vine version:

(I am a huge fan of handwritten letters and cards. Guess what kind of card everyone’s getting in the mail?