Make: Paper Inventions, 2nd Edition - Print

Paper is incredible stuff. It's easy to cut, but amazingly strong. It's disposable, but can last for centuries. It can stand as stiff as a board, pop up like a spring, or float like a leaf. And its invention changed the world forever.

Perfect for kids, parents, and educators, Make: Paper Inventions is a project-based book with full-color illustrations, step-by-step instructions, supply lists, and templates that enable you to follow along with the book or devise something entirely new. Each chapter features new projects that will challenge and intrigue, from beginners to experienced makers.

Learn the history of papermaking and how to use simple STEAM principles to make fun and creative paper inventions of your very own!

Updated and revised, with more than 30 projects and variations, including:

• Edible Paper, for disposing secret messages
• Light-Up Paper Creatures, using electric circuits, switches, and special effects
• Motorized QuillBots, that jitter around the table
• Paper Zoetrope, spinning illustrations to life
• Infinity Mirror Mystery Box, featuring a secrfet compartment behind its tunnel of lights
• AnswerBot Fortune-Telling Machine, for cryptic hints about the future
• Blow-Out Birthday Card, with a musical, flickering LED "flame"

Meet the Author

Kathy Ceceri is the author of more than a dozen STEAM activity books for kids and families, including Making Simple Robots 2nd Edition, Edible Inventions, Musical Inventions, Fabric and Fiber Inventions, and BOTS! In addition to creating project tutorials for organizations including Chibitronics, Adafruit, KidWind, and Girl Scouts of the USA, Kathy presents hands-on workshops at schools, museums, libraries, and Maker Faires around the Northeast. She lives in Upstate New York. Find out more at kathyceceri.com.