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I was invited once again to teach some 6-7 y.o. children about geometric solids.

We’ve been talking about sphere, cylinder, cone, cube and parallelepiped. I taught them the basics and how to draw/represent them.

Besides, we were focusing on a project where they’ll build a paper dinosaur. I told them about designing and unfolding and how to represent a complex surface using simple solids. E.g.: a dinosaur tail can be split into a cone and some truncated cones. The simply loved the idea!

I’ll tell you more on this story soon. Stay tuned

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There is a lot of information about paper models and where you can download it, but no/little information about the creative process of papertoys.

How to design a papertoy starting from scratch. How to start with creating papertoys.

Matthijs C. Kamstra aka [mck] wrote an interesting article regarding this subject:
How to create your own Papercraft

Now he wrote about the creative process of designing a papertoy:
Papertoy design – the basics
and it starts from the beginning: a cube and how to make a cube into a papertoy.

It seems that people need some help in the creative process.

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Ninjatoes posted a small “pre-shaping” video tutorial on his weblog.

I think it can help beginners on how to enter the paper model world.

You can download the cylinder template and follow the video. Or you can try yourself and find out you are a master or not.

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