A Rubber Band Pop-Up Penguin With a Pretty Snowflake Envelope and Notecard
Video of the Penguin Popping Out of the Snowflake Envelope
This Rubber Band Pop-Up Penguin makes a fun surprise for the recipient as the penguin pops up out of the Snowflake envelope when it is removed. There is stored energy in the rubber band that was incorporated into the design. The rubber band was stretched and placed into the Snowflake envelope. The rubber band wants to return to its natural state and it does so when it is removed from the envelope. It is 3 1/2 inches tall.
The base design is a triamond triangular bicupola from my blog post https://papercraftetc.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-stem-project-rubber-band-polyhedron.html The triamond triangular bicupola is made up of squares and trapezoids with a hexagon center. I used this design to my advantage when I placed a square and a hexagon together to form the penguin. The top half has the squares of the triamond triangular bicupola facing forward. The bottom half has the trapezoids facing forward. The reason why this design works is because the smaller base of the trapezoid and the square are the same length. By combining the two, the proportions look different.
Side View of the Penguin - the head appears larger.
Both halves appear to be the same size facing forward.
Here is the PDF. I used assorted 65 lb cardstock and foil cardstock from Michaels. I used a pair of wiggly eyes. I have included two round black dots if these wiggly eyes are not available. This
Penguin Pop-Up plus the Snowflake envelope/notecard can fit into an A4 envelope for mailing.
Here is the .Studio file.
Here is the SVG. The file extends past the visible viewing area. Zoom out to see the entire file.
Rubber Bands from Office Depot
I used the yellow rubber band.
I cut and knotted the rubber band as shown above. The length between the knots is approximately 1 3/4 inches.
Layout the penguin body and glue on the white pieces as show above. The direction of the slits does matter. See below for a close-up of the head half and then the second photo is the body half.
Notice that both slits are oriented in the same direction for the head.
And the same direction for the body. Glue these two body tabs together. Set aside to allow the glue to dry.
Fold and apply glue to the inside of the beak.
Apply glue to the tab shown above.
Adhere the beak. Notice the circle and slit for the rubber band are visible. This is needed so that the rubber band can be slid into place here. Glue the two head tabs together. Set this aside for the glue to dry.
When the glue has dried for the body of the penguin, Slide the rubber band into place. Make sure to align the rubber band into the middle of the semicircle. Apply glue to the two tabs shown above.
Bring the two halves together and adhere the corresponding tabs. Apply glue and adhere the semicircle tab. Wait for the glue to dry before trying to slide the rubber band into place. Make sure to align it in the middle of the semicircle.
Repeat the above procedure for the head of the penguin.
Bring the two halves together and adhere the corresponding tabs. Apply glue and adhere the semicircle tab. Wait for the glue to dry before trying to slide the rubber band into place. Make sure to align it in the middle of the semicircle.
Press the body half down to glue and adhere the last two tabs.
Glue on the Penguin's wings.
Glue on the Bow Tie
Press the head half down to glue and adhere the last two tabs.
Glue the head and body halves together. Adhere the feet to the bottom of the penguin. Glue on the wiggly eyes.
Fold envelope part #1 as shown above.
Fold envelope part #2 as shown above.
Glue and adhere the tab of part #2 to envelope part #1.
Side view of the envelope.
Apply glue to the two sides of part #1 and adhere to part #2.
Completed envelope with the two snowflake sides inserted into the slot in the top flap.
This is so cute and original! Thank you for sharing the cut file! Love the penguin as well as the envelope!
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