How To Make A Stair-step Pop-up For The Biography Mini-DioramaFri Apr 11 2025 16:32:34 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)]

>> Hi, everyone.

I wanted to show you how to make our mini
diorama that you're going to be using

for the biography of someone who's
made a contribution to society.

You can find the unit plan on Module 17,
week nine, a full description of the project.

I'm going to show you how to make this
kind of stand-up, stair-step pop-up.

Each layer is going to have some
sort of design or decoration

or one of your clay objects
that represent the person.

For this, I'm using like index cards,
the larger index card, two of them,

because we want to cover up the hole in the back

and give it a little bit more
support and glue it down.

So let me just show you how to do that.

First, you're going to take a
piece of paper, not copy paper.

Try and find like the sturdiest, a thicker
piece of paper, like tag board, you know,

that file folders are made out of.

I'm going to fold it in half.

I'm going to call it the
hamburger fold, portrait fold.

Okay. So, on the fold, I'm going to
draw some lines for you just to show.

I don't have a second camera, so I
need to put it down on a surface.

We're going to make some cuts.

So, we're going to make some cuts.

Here are the lines.

It's far enough away from each edge;
otherwise, like, it would be really too thin.

So make sure it's moved in.

Make sure it's under halfway of your paper.

Then I'm going to take and I'm going
to cut right on these two lines.

And I going to take and I'm going to fold it up.

Again, I need a heavier surface to
do it, so I'm going to put it down.

So I just folded it forwards.

Then I'm going to fold it backwards, the
opposite direction, so I get a really good fold.

And then one more fold forwards, kind
of like what you do with origami.

Then I'm going to put this little flap down.

I'm going to open it up.

From the back, I'm going to push it through.

I'm going to fold it.

And I've got my first layer.

So, what I'm going to do now,
I've got a top and a bottom.

So I'm going to take the top layer.

And just so you can see what I'm doing,
I'm going to draw two lines, again,

away from the cut edge and less than halfway up.

Okay? So what I'm going to do, I'm
just going to cut the top layer.

If you wanted to come out, you
would be cutting two layers.

And if you accidentally do that, that's fine.

And I'll show you what that looks like.

So again, here, I'm going to cut.

And make sure your cuts are even when you pop it
through, so you won't have any problems folding.

So I'm going to fold it up.

And let me put it down on a surface
so I can get a really good fold.

Now, it's really hard to fold it
back, so I just fold it forwards.

So I'm going to do the same thing.

I'm going to open it up.

I'm going to push it through,
kind of pull it through.

And then I get my second layer.

And what you can do, you can just put
it on a surface and make another fold.

Got to get it on camera here.

One more, one more.

Let me draw the lines again.

Again, the line is not too
close to the edge of that cut.

I'm going to cut, and I'm
just going to do the top.

Let's see.

I'll show it to you there.

Okay. I'm going to take the same thing.

Fold it up.

I'm going to open it.

I'm going to push it through.

I'm going to fold it again.

Oops. And you have your three layers.

Let's say if you want to have a layer
coming out here, same thing here,

or like this little layer
here, you just cut the bottom.

So let me do that.

So I'm just going to make a cut here, cut here.

Fold it. This time, I think
I'm going to fold it backwards.

That would be a little easier.

Fold it backwards.

And you have it where it comes out.

Again, it's not required.

Just, you know, try for your three different
layers here like I did with this one.

And then this would get glued down.

And then you would get a piece of paper.

Let's see.

Ah, here's my piece of paper.

Ideally, they're the same size, but I wanted
to show you a colored piece of paper here.

You put the fold on top of the fold.

There's a fold there.

There's a fold in the middle.

So you just like put them on top,
and then you would glue them down.

Let me get that.

And it's kind of nice to use
different colors because then you get

like another color showing through.

So, with your person who's made a
contribution, put their name here.

Get a photocopy of an image, or
you can draw a photo of them.

And use, you know, like -- Put like designs
that would represent like that person.

Pretend that you're a museum curator
and this is going to be in a glass case.

Okay? We have some air-dry clay in class.

You make little objects that
represent the person.

Decorate, design the back, and kind of
like the bottom, the ground level too.

You can use fabric.

You can use construction paper making designs.

Okay. So, I hope this helps you, and I
can't wait to see your finished work.

Thanks. Bye-bye.