Explosion book

Download these helpful explosion box worksheets for creating your hardbound explosion box and lid as well as some of the content pieces

Ana Dziengel from Babble Dabble Do is here to show you how she uses a variety of art materials from SAKURA to make an explosion book from start to finish. F...

Miss Cerk on Instagram: “Unifying the pages! #8thgradeartists are almost done their explosion books (credit@Mrs. Amsler:…”

Summer break is starting to wind down for a lot of teachers (myself included) and the craziness of back to school season is just around the corner. Many of us are using this time to decorate and set up our classrooms, attend all the SUPER INFORMATIVE professional development days and start lesson planning for the

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Cate Field Dorset Artist on Instagram: "I’ve been thinking about tutorials for my students over the next few months and I saw a few other people doing these lovely pop-up and explosion books and I used to love making these when I was little so in the coming tutorials on YouTube I’ll be showing you how to do it. I release content on a Monday and a Friday every week for all you happy artists. #happyart #artteachersofinstagram #popupbook #minijournal"

I thought I'd add the instructions for making a "Squash Book" on here. This is a book I made a couple of years ago as a class for a cyber crop Ingredients for the basic album 3 sheets of card, Bazzill is good thicker card for the covers Ribbon Selection of toning patterned and plain papers Tools etc Good quality glue Double sided sticky tape Bone folder Use a bone folder to get good creases on all the folds 1. Cut 3 perfect squares of card. I made mine 8.5inches (21cms) square. It’s…

These small, square books “explode” into a series of square and triangular pages when you open them. Each student constructed their own book with decorative papers, cardboard, ribbon, and construct…

I have seen this book structure called a squash book or explosion book. It looks simple but packs a punch when you open it! I love the movement of this book as it is opened and closed. A simple Google search will give you pages of inspiration for the many ways this book can be interpreted. Let's get started! The supplies I used are: 3 sheets of black cardstock cut to 8.5" squares White cardstock for monoprinting Gelli Arts® 9"x12" printing plate Gelli Arts® Premium Acrylic Paints Brayer…