Re-create this trick postage stamp
to make pop-up toys and cards
PROJECTS: Toy Inventor’s Notebook
Fun With Pop-
Up Stamps
Written and photographed
by Bob Knetzger
104 makercampus.com
Even in an age of emails and texts, stamp
collecting is still a favorite hobby of adults
and kids. You can explore and learn about lots
of things: geography, history … and toys.
There are lots of U.S. postage stamps that
commemorate classic toys (Figures
A
through
D
), and some novelty stamps are toy-like and
fun in themselves!
These USPS stamps (Figure
E
) are scented
with the real scratch-and-sniff aroma of ice
cream pops — fragrant philately!
This 2012 stamp from the Netherlands (Figure
F
) was made to commemorate a Children’s Book
Fair.This gummed stamp is a working pop-up toy.
The cleverly engineered three-layer design has a
top layer with the stamp graphics, a middle layer
with a “sled” between two side guides, and a base
layer. When pulled, the sled slides along, bending
and folding a flap, which pops up revealing a cut-
out shape (Figures
G
,
H
, and
I
). When pushed,
the stamp goes flat again.
You can make your own pop-up stamp like I did.
BOB KNETZGER is a designer/inventor/musician whose award-winning toys have been
featured on The Tonight Show, Nightline, and Good Morning America. He is the author of Make:
Fun!, available at makershed.com and fine bookstores.
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