How to Make a Floating Book

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The relief adds visual richness to any book (it would be interesting if the textbook also included relief). If you’re interested in trying out crafting for kids (or anyone else!) then making a hologram book is relatively simple. All you need is a story, time and some simple materials.

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Make a plan to make the book

Choose an interesting topic. ^{[1] X Research Resources} The theme of the stereoscopic book should be child-friendly if you want to give it to young children. Not only children but also adults will love a story book with 3D pictures.

You can choose real or non-realistic themes. If you choose unrealistic, choose folklore or make up another story. If you choose a realistic theme, you should choose a theme that will interest your child, such as the universe, dinosaurs or animals.
You don’t have to spend a lot of brainpower to make a real book. It could be a letter, a marriage proposal, or a meaningful piece to accompany the gift.

Simple disign. Limit the number of floats you use so the pages don’t get messy or unsteady. The fewer cuts the page has, the stronger it will be.

Feel free to add other handmade embellishments to make the book look better. However, adding too much can also cause the page to become cluttered and flattened.

Come up with a story idea. Write storyboards. Write the story or scenario on paper, breaking it up into paragraphs or lines when you want to move on to a new page of the book. Sketch out a draft of the image you want to use on each page.

Before you get started, it’s important to know how many pages you need, along with how many images, and how to distribute them.

Book building

Fold a sheet of stiff paper in half. Hard paper measuring 23x30cm will work very well, but you can also use cardstock, thin poster paper or scrapbook paper of your choice.

The paper must be thicker than normal printing paper. Fold the paper in half horizontally to make a book cover.

Cut two horizontal, parallel slits in the center of the paper. The opening is about 5cm long and about 2.5cm wide. The gap will create a protruding groove. ^{[2] X Research Source}

Open the paper. Place the paper vertically so that the height looks longer than the width. Use your finger, ink, or pencil to push the two cut lines into a raised groove.

Make illustrations. You can draw and color the illustration on another sheet of hard paper or cardstock, or you can cut it from recycled pictures, magazines, or photo books and stick it on hard cardstock.

Make sure the images you design and use are the size of the book page. Also, make sure you have all the characters and images you need for the entire book, rather than just one page.
Leave space at the bottom of the page for content writing. If you want your child to write their own content, you should use a line ruler to make it easier for them to write. You can also paste lined paper into the space.
- However, if you write your own, you can leave it blank or print the content from your computer and paste it on the page of the book.

Prepare enough pages. Do the same folding and cutting to create enough pages to complete the story.

Review the story. Make sure you have enough illustrations to match your content. Besides, you must also have enough pages.

Write content. Flip through the pages of the book and write or paste the text at the bottom of each page.

If the space on the book page is not enough to write all the content, stick a piece of paper above to supplement the content for the text below. So problem solved!

Decorate the background of each page. Sketch the background with a pencil before coloring it to your liking. Do not fill in the protruding groove on the paper.

If you have a good eraser, you can erase the pencil strokes after you paint.

Highlight the image

Cut and paste the image into the raised groove. Crop a photo or illustration that you designed yourself. Glue the back of the photo to the appropriate slot. However, do not paste in the background of the page. Because of that, the image won’t pop up!

If you’re using liquid glue, don’t take too much. Apply glue and the protrusion and do not apply to the image; This way, you don’t have to worry about the glue sticking to the top or bottom of the groove.

Glue the pages together. You will glue the back of the pages. The top half of page two will stick to the bottom half of the first page. The top half of the third page will stick to the bottom half of the second page. Continue pasting the remaining pages in this way.

However, do not glue the protruding grooves together, as doing so will not make the image emerge.

Make a book cover. Fold a piece of cardboard larger than the page in half into the book. Then, remove the cover from the book to decorate the inside and front of the cover and stick it on the first and last pages of the book.

This is completely optional. If you are designing a story within the letter or for another purpose, the cover is not necessary.
Enjoy! When the glue is completely dry, you can open the book to read.

Advice

You can also make multiple reliefs in each page. Just cut more protruding notches along the fold, evenly spaced until you have the required number of notches for the illustrations.

Things you need

Board
Drag
Pencils and pens
Crayons, crayons, watercolors or markers
Glue
Ruler

Steps

Make a plan to make the book

Book building

Highlight the image

Advice

Things you need

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