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Paper Toy Expo

On Tuesday, Oct. 20th we celebrated National Design Week in my classroom by having a Paper Toy Expo open to the whole high school. Over forty students came in at lunch to build Paper Totems. For many students this was their first experience building paper toys, but definitely not their last! It was so successful that the students are demanding that we do this once a month throughout the school year.

The students had their choice of most of the amazing artists that have participated in Dolly Oblong's artist series. It was a blast watching so many kids find the joy of paper toy building. If you would like to see more images from the event, please go to:

http://graphics.chs.lusd.org/Site/Photo_Archives/Pages/NDW-PaperToy...

Thanks
Scott Schaller
Cbarillo High School

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Comment by Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck] on October 26, 2009 at 4:16am: this is sooooo cool, I wish someone did that when I went to school...

Comment by Abz on October 23, 2009 at 10:26am: Congrats on the success of the Paper Toy Expo, Scott! It's great to hear that the students had such a fun time making paper toys. Love what you're doing, keep it up!!!

Comment by SupahButtahToast on October 22, 2009 at 9:26pm: we totally need to do this every month,
i made a few of dolly oblongs and not to mention
your super exclusive special edition national design week
toy :D

Comment by Greg Madden on October 22, 2009 at 3:31pm: I'm so jealous of this! I wish I was still in your class. I need to get back into the game soon. I have some ideas, and some finished toys that just need a weekend for photographing. :) haah.
keep up the good work with NDW!

Comment by Methuup da Funky One on October 22, 2009 at 10:17am: Make them all sons & sisters of the P. Spread the Paper.

Comment by Scott Schaller on October 22, 2009 at 9:53am: I print my toys on a color laser printer and use a 90lb index card stock. It holds up well to glue and folding, especially as beginners tend to bend things back and forth a lot. The toner cracks at the edges, but it is cheap compared to ink jet. I use tacky glue because it sets fast and a little holds a lot. We use x-acto knives and scissors to cut with, but to make clean folds we use scoring tools (also called burnishing tools). They look like x-acto knives with a ball tip instead of a blade. I get mine from Dick Blick.com and they are made by Grifhold (http://www.dickblick.com/products/grifhold-burnisher-set/) and have a variety of tip sizes. Handy little tools.

As for the patterns, I printed out most of the Totem Collection from Dolly Oblong's site and had multiples available for the students to choose their favorites and to mix and match. It was so successful that we will be doing it again next month. In December we will make Christmas oriented toys.

Comment by Dr.Shazam on October 22, 2009 at 8:39am: Scott--just straight up awesome. In getting my own kids introduced to papertoys, I've also picked the Paper Totems as the perfect mix of art and easy builds. I'm curious...to the uninitiated, it looks like you keep some X-acto's, straight edges, and Aleene's glue around...any other details you can mention? Certain paper weights? Multiple glue types? Scissors, tweezers? Do the kids pick out their favorite pattern from Dolly Oblong's site, or a collection you've built up?

Well done.