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Book Review – Once Upon A Piece Of Paper

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Once Upon A Piece Of Paper by Andrea D’Aquino RRP $24.99

Have you ever wanted to tear up piece of paper then turn them in to something interesting? Then this is the book for you. My daughter actually prefers to Tear paper than use scissors so you can imagine how excited she was with this book. This book is a great gift for any creative or out of the box kinda teenager or adult.

Check out the video we made on Instagram.

*Includes a 112-page paperback book plus a 50-sheet pad of unique collage papers inside of a beautiful hardcover case.

Find out how layers of simple paper can create mysterious and beautiful worlds within worlds through the art of collage.

When the Cubists first integrated paper, fabric, and newsprint pieces into their paintings, it was considered an audacious intermingling of high and low culture. In doing so, they revolutionized modern art. Today collage remains a vital and popular art form that’s prevalent in many platforms, from fine art to fashion, from editorial and advertising illustration to children’s books, in both analog and digital forms. (Source)

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My daughter’s school has project-based finals instead of tests in the spring, and in her geometry class last year the students constructed a scale model of a town complete with three-dimensional buildings. 

Of course building a paper town doesn’t have to include a geometry lesson (they also calculated the volume of their buildings) but it is a fun way to get kids to express their creativity by decorating the buildings and talking about the things they would want to include in their own town. 

Putting buildings together is a test of fine-motor skills, and if kids are working on a town together they’ll need to negotiate what goes where and why. 

Get started with the house printables from Kids Activities Blog. They’ve got a “plain” roof house and a “fancy” roof house to choose from. Just print, color, cut out and assemble. 

You might want more than just houses in your little town, though, so I went hunting for some more printable templates you can use to make different kinds of buildings. 

Brother has printable skyscrapers, cars, people, trees and lights (shown above) that are meant to be printed in color buy you can do them in black and white so kids can color them in if you want.

Printablee has another colorized set of paper buildings including different kinds of houses and something that maybe looks like a church or school. 

If you’re willing and bale to pay for printables to use in your paper town, there are lots of great ones available on Etsy. Ludlow Prints has a collection with a school, grocery store, bakery and other buildings, while Paper Fun By Yumi includes things like a hospital, fire department and police station (essential if you’ve done a community helpers unit!). 

Tiger Bee Learning has a printable set with 20 different buildings, including a bank, library, museum and zoo to name a few, as well as a blank template for kids to design their own buildings. Once you have the basics of making a piece of paper into a 3D building down, kids are sure to want to make their own buildings to add to the town. 

Older kids can also write about why they picked the buildings they did, and littler kids will have fun building their town over and over again. 

[Photo: Brother]