 Good afternoon. Hi everyone and welcome. My name is Jason. I'm a librarian at San Francisco Public Library Wherever you're tuning in from I'm so happy you're here with us Go ahead and pop in the chat where you're tuning in from we love knowing where our audience Audiences are we're gonna start off with the little trailer of what we're doing a little video Awesome. So today's book project is called exquisite corpse fold It is the final project of our three-part series with our friends from book arts roadshow and our trusty friends will share the supply list in the chat This is part of our make-do program series Your place for craft and maker programs for school-age kids and their families So check out our website for calendar listings and that link will be in the chat also It'll have downloadable activity sheets book lists and more And before we begin we'd like to start off with the land acknowledgment We are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramatush alone II who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula and continue to live work and play here today as The indigenous stewards of this land in an accordance with their traditions the Ramatush alone I have never ceded lost nor forgotten their Responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors elders and relatives of the Ramatush community And by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples We'd like to give a huge thanks to the friends of SFPL for their generous support of this special series So we can't do this without them along with all our other programs Without further ado, let me welcome book arts road show which was co-founded by Cheryl Ball and CK at Amura And they provide book arts instruction and hands-on learning experiences for children teens and grown-ups Take it away books art road show Hi, thanks so much Jason for the nice warm welcome and thank you to San Francisco Public Library for having us back for this third of three The third part of a three-part series of book making. We just want to let everybody know that this Bookmaking session is being recorded. So if you're watching it live on YouTube right now, that's great But let your friends know that they can go to the YouTube channel for San Francisco Center for the book and watch it later on And so can you San Francisco Public Library. Oh, I'm sorry. What did I say? Did I say I don't even know what I said That's okay San Francisco Public Library. Oh San Francisco Public Library So anyways, thank you so much for having us again, we're gonna be doing an exquisite corpse book And so we're gonna show you some examples of what an exquisite corpse book is and then we're going to Show you The tools that you need the supplies that you'll need and then we'll get started on making the book So here's a little example of an exquisite corpse book. So it's a multiple Section book where you can have illustrations and You can turn each section of the page to change the illustration to something else And You can also use it not just for Illustrations, but you can also use it in several different ways. So Let's see so another way you can use it is As a learning tool for constructing words So we have the word dot here. We change the last letter to a G Becomes dog. If you change the last letter to an N becomes dawn dog dig Can So you can use it for word learning word learning letter learning and you can also use it as a flash card tool for Mathematical equations so you can go ahead and change the numbers change the mathematical symbols and That's great to use as a flash card tool as well for older kids instead of putting simple numbers or The spelling a word you can actually use it to build sentences or even stories So keep those things in mind That of different ways that you can use These exquisite corpse books So, let's see. Oh I forgot to mention a little bit about us. We're the book arts roadshow and Before COVID We used to go around to different locations public libraries schools museums in person and teach workshops on how to make books but Since COVID started we've been doing it at all of our workshops online And we really appreciate that terms of school public library has invited us to do another series Just so that you know the previous workshops that we did are also on the San Francisco public libraries YouTube page So if you go to the YouTube page and you search for book arts roadshow or make and do You'll see all the previous workshops that we did there, too So without further ado Cheryl would you like to show everybody the tools that they'll need for sure look let me Switch to my overhead camera and then you can see what tools So I just have a stapler a pair of scissors a Sharpie it doesn't have to be a sharpie. It could be any black marker a Pencil a Wooden spoon or you could even use to use a regular metal spoon whatever you have at home The spoon is used in place of Bone folders which these are them but these are not necessary and We ask for a little tiny what it could be any size ruler really so a ruler and then you'll need five sheets of paper and One piece of card stock so That's what you need five sheets five and three quarters by six and Then six by six, but you can use any size. We're just using this size for this demonstration alright, so CK is gonna tell us how to do this and I will be the hands on the camera Thanks for sharing all the tools with us So first thing we're going to do is we're gonna take actually instead of five sheets of paper We're gonna do this with four. It's just easier to fold so we're gonna take Four sheets of paper not your card stock, but your actual four sheets of paper And you're gonna jog them together so that they're all lined up Stacked on top of each other nice and neatly and because it's a six by six square It doesn't matter which direction you fold it, but we're gonna be folding it in half So you're gonna match up your corners after you've got all your papers jogged up on top of each other you're gonna fold it in half and Match up your corners as best you can and then go ahead and fold it in half and After you fold it in half you're gonna make a little dense on the crease side and you then you're gonna go ahead and Smooth it out with your finger to the top and bottom and then take your spoon and Press down hard on the crease to make the crease very sharp And then got basically what's called a signature of pages That's ready to For the next step You're also gonna take your cover, which is the piece of card stock and you're gonna fold it in half the same way so you're gonna match up the corners and Then Once you've got the corners matched up go ahead and press down on the fold side and put your finger up to the top and slide it down to the bottom and then grab your spoon and Press down with your spoon to make the crease really sharp great Now you've got your cover and then you've got your signature of four pages folded in half which actually turned into eight pages And then What we're gonna do is we're gonna Take one of the sheets of the pages just one at a time. So take one of the sheets and Your ruler and your pencil and the first thing you're going to do is you're going to turn your Piece of paper so that the fold is horizontal Great and then we're gonna take the ruler and we're gonna place the ruler parallel to the fold that's already on the piece of paper and Starting at one edge of the paper. We're going to draw Let's see kind of slide your ruler up toward the top of the paper just like all the way to the top edge of the paper. Let's see, like this, like take your ruler and then slide it all the way up to the top edge of the paper and then we're going to go ahead and mark at two inches with your ruler and at four inches. And then you're going to mark at the bottom edge of the paper two inches and four inches like that. So you've got one mark. I'm going to do it with a pen. You can see where the marks are. One, two, three, four. So we're just going to have four marks. So we've got a fold right here. And there you've got a mark up here a mark up here a mark down here and a mark down here. So this was that two inches and four inches and two inches and four inches. And then what we're going to do is we're going to play connect the dots. So now we're going to get the pencil and we're going to connect the mark on the top with a mark on the bottom. And then also do it again from the top to the bottom. So then you have something that looks like that we have a line here and a line here in your fold goes across the middle of the page. Great. So we're going to do the same thing to the other three sheets of paper. You can open up your page your paper and then make a mark at the top edge at two inches and four inches. And then at the bottom two inches. And four inches, two inches, four inches again. Two inches and four inches, two inches and four inches. And then we're going to play connect the dots and connect them from the top to the bottom with the pencil that page. Number two, we'll get to the third one. You probably already have it by now, but I'm going to go ahead and call out the instructions anyway. So you're going to place your ruler parallel to the fold market at two inches and four inches on the top and then on the bottom, we're going to market at two inches and four inches and then connect the dots with your pencil almost it wasn't an earthquake. It was just me shaking my computer. Don't worry. Okay, and so you have that and then we'll do it on the fourth sheet of paper. Now, as I mentioned before, you could use more pages, but just because it's easier to fold your pages, we're just going to use four instead of five today. Number four, same way. So now we have, it's hard to see on mine, but we basically have my lines with a sharpie pen. So they're easier to see on the camera. So each of the pages basically should have lines like that now. Great. So now, a lot of measuring in this one. Now we're going to take our ruler and turn our page this way so that the lines are going horizontal. Take our ruler again, and then go ahead and put the ruler on one of those lines, then mark the lines. Let's see putting the ruler on the starting from the left edge. I'm marking it at two inches. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm marking it at one inch, two inch, four inches, and five inches. And if you notice, I skipped three because the paper is already creased on where the three inch mark is, so we don't really need one there. But what we do have, and I went ahead and I'm going to put my marks in sharpie. It's hard to see on the screen. Great. So we've got these little dots here now. Okay, this is at one inch, two inch, four inches and five inches. And we're going to do that to the bottom line as well. You know, Cheryl and I are doing ours in marker, but you should be doing yours in pencil. We're just doing it in markers so that you can see, see the marks on the screen. Yes, I actually prefer to do mine in pencil usually. So now the same set of dots. We're not playing connect the dots this time. But we're going to put this one aside and we're going to do the same set of dots on all three other sheets. So again, you're going to get your next piece, and you're going to measure it from the left, going to measure it at the one inch mark, the two inch mark, the four inch mark, the five inch mark on both lines. So one, two, four, five, skipping three, because we don't need three inches. Again, now that you're getting the hang of it, we'll go to page number three and do the same thing and mark those dots on those lines. So you can actually make the dots really light because in the end, probably going to just erase them. They're just markers for the next step. So basically everything we're doing right now is in preparation for the drawing version of the exquisite course. So now you've got four sheets of paper that have all these dots on them. So what we're going to do is we're going to actually start drawing. So with your marker, looking for my marker. So with your marker, what you're going to envision is that the top section above the fold up here, the top section above the fold is where the head goes. You can envision something like this little happy son with a stick body. The head is above on this top section here above the top line. The body is the middle section, and the legs are going to be the bottom section. But the reason why we have those dots there is because the dots are where all the body parts connect to each other. So in this case, in this sample, the dots would show up here and here and here and here in the original drawing. So that's where the head connects to the body and where the body connects to where the legs show up. So Cheryl's saying to draw hers. You can use our samples if you want to or you can. I'll show while Cheryl's starting to draw hers. And if you're trying to get some, I'm just going to show you some other little ideas. There's a music note person that has music notes all over. Just to give you a few ideas. And we're not going to draw all of them right now we're going to draw a few of them. Just so you can get an idea. And then after this video is over, then you can go ahead and draw the rest of them yourself. So here's another one that's actually a plant that has a face on the top, a body in the middle and a pot for the bottom. Here's some sort of strange insect with web feet and wings. So maybe it's not an insect. I'm not sure where that character is from, but the head is up here, the neck connects to the body at those two dots, and the legs connect to the rest of the character on the bottom. And again, just for some more ideas. There's a person's head on that body. But then we turn the page and now there's like something that looks like an insect and stick feet. Another little sun. Not sure what this other character is going to be looks like maybe it's some kind of crazy chicken. But it has like a fish mermaid tail on it. So this was all just to get help give you some ideas of things that you might want to draw. Some other show what this last one's going to be feet. So there's some running feet, but there's some kind of like little bees wings on that one. That's some ideas shows doing a great job there drawing. And then if you don't feel like drawing right now, then you can just watch the rest of this video you can think about what to draw and you can draw later on. Great. So let's see where we are now so shows got her drawings there. And we have some pre drawn drawings can't have handy to. So she's going to go ahead and use the pre drawn drawings on there. So, at this point, if you want to catch up and draw your drawings before watching the rest of this video just pause the video and then start playing it again after you're done with all your drawings. Otherwise, we're going to go ahead and move forward with the next steps. The next steps would be is that you would take all your drawings and stack them up on top of each other. And then you're going to fold them in half and use your spoon to make sure that the creases really sharp. And then what we're going to do is we're going to insert the pages into the cover. Remember the cover. There's a piece of cover stuff that we folded in half in the beginning. So we're going to insert the little bit bigger than you can hear the difference in the paper. So basically yes cover stock is really thicker paper is what cover stock is. And then we're going to insert the pages in there. So and they should fit in nicely because the pages and the cover all the same size. And then we're going to open the to the center section. And then we're going to go down the center page there. And what we're going to do. In fact, Cheryl, if you want to just draw a little dot or a line where the sections are the sections. Yeah, just on the center fold. Oh, yeah. There's a little where those lines are she's trying a little dot or a line right in the center where those right on that center line, we're on the center fold, we're just trying to line a little dot right on there. So that is basically the dot that's making the the fold divided into three equal parts. So above the top dot, we're going to just draw a little line where a staple is going to end up going. The staple is going to go roughly in the middle of that top section. Perfect. And then in the middle section or the body section, we're going to draw a little line there. That's approximately where another staple is going to go. So we're just drawing them so you can see approximately where the staples are going to go on the pages. So one staple per section so you're going to have one staple in the top section one staple in the middle section and one staple in the bottom section ultimately. So now you can grab your stapler. And then slip your stapler in and try to keep all your pages all lined up nicely together. And you're going to go to that top section and put one staple right there in where you drew the little staple line. And it's going to go right onto on that crease. So I'm going to draw a little line a little bit, but So now what you used to be a line. It's hard to see but there's actually a staple in the middle of that now. So then we're going to go to the middle section where you drew another line for where the staples going to go. And we're going to go ahead and put a staple in that section as well. One staple right there and another staple right there in the middle. And then we're going to go down to the bottom or the leg section, and then go ahead and put one last staple in the bottom. Now, we've got another staple down at the bottom. Good job. Now what we're going to do is we're going to close the book again. And use your spoon to sharpen the crease, because now that we've added staples to the crease the staple the it's bunching up a little bit, it's swelling a little bit. So we're going to flatten that out with a spoon. And then you're going to just take the cover only and open the cover. And then you're actually going to open the. You're going to see you're going to open the first 123 four pages. Yeah, so you have your cover that you just opened, and then you're taking the first four pages. And you're going to open to where your lines are. And basically you've got half the book open right now you've got the cover and the four pages. You should be in the middle, you should be in back in the middle again. What you're going to do is you're going to cut on the lines, but you're not going to cut the cover, you're only going to cut the four sheets of paper on that line, but not the cover. You're going to cut it just until the center fold. So Cheryl has her scissors there but she is not cutting through the cover. See how I'm holding it so the cover is away from the pages, the covers away the cover is not inside the scissors, and she's cutting just the pages up until that center crease. And then she's stopping, and she gets to the center crease. The point of my scissors are stopping. So then you'll have the separation of your pages. And then she's going to cut on the other line. I'm going to cut his head off. Okay, cutting, I'm trying to cut as straight as I can just moving the scissors forward in the straight line. There we go. Great. Perfect. Great job. Okay, now we're going to turn the book upside down and we're going to go to the other side. And we're going to cut the other four pages, and we're going to make sure not to cut on the back of the cover is away. And I've got my pages. I'm just cutting on the line make sure your fingers are out of the way to so you don't cut your fingers. You're going to cut all the way until that center fold with any and you didn't cut the cover. So now you have your covers are intact. Your cover is still intact. But your pages are all now cut into three sections. Everybody got that. Right. So now once again you're going to fold it. You're going to cut it up. Use your spoon, handy spoon, and then go ahead and smash that crease down really well. And now on the cover if you want to write a title like exquisite corpse book or something on the cover. You could do that. Or any other title that you can think of. Do you want to show off the pages of your book. Sure. So here's a rocket ship. But, oh my goodness, the rocket ship can turn into something else. What is that for. It can turn into a squid. And then here's my caterpillar, which can turn into a caterpillar and a cookie. And here's my carrot, which can turn into kind of a robot carrot with bunny feet. And the abilities are endless because there's my rabbit there's a cacti the cacti can turn into part gingerbread body. Gingerbread cacti. There you go. Now that you know how to assemble or how to make an exquisite corpse book. Remember the ideas that we showed at the beginning where you can actually use it to go words. You can use it as a book for math problems. Math problems. You can use it to put a word on each page to make sentences that change as you flip the pages. And you can use it for stories as well. But in addition to that Cheryl's got another thing to tell you about the exquisite corpse books. I'm going to keep this paper here because I'll explain what this is for. So the exquisite corpse book actually started back in 1925. There were surrealist artists who got together, and they would just make up games and one of the games that they used to do is like they would each take a turn and tell a story like Cheryl was saying, and you could put different sentences on each section different words. So they would do that to create stories. Well then somebody decided hey what if I, and they would have all these marks. I'm going to draw a head, and there's a Martian, and then I'm going to cover that up, but I'm going to send it over to my friend CK CK then not knowing what the head looks like would draw a body. And then she would say hey I'm going to turn it over to one of my pals at the San Francisco public library, then somebody else would draw a bottom. And they would pass us along to all these people to fill all these different parts and then you truly truly had like an exquisite exquisite corpse book because they're all corpses their bodies, and they were totally fantastical. So that's something you can do with your friends as well. And then one other modification that you can make to the books to today we use the stapler. Just a little desktop stapler. If you wanted to make a larger book, a larger version of this, there's a couple ways to do it. One of them is to something like this, this is a saddle stapler. You've got access to one of these these are great this allows you to make the pages bigger than the size that we did today. And also, there's a piece of equipment called a long arm stapler that's available at office supply stores and most schools have them available to you. And that allows you to make larger books. Oh, and she's showing how you can use the standard stapler. Yeah, some of these open up like this flat. So then what you could do is you can take a, let me see. You can take a phone book and, and here's the center, you can just take the stapler and push it in and then what you'll do is you'll take the back of the paper and push the staples down. And then there's a piece to do it. I'm sure you've seen teachers using this to staple things on the board so and then Cheryl's going to show you another way to do it. So another way to do it is not to use any stapler or staples at all and it's the other way to is to sew the pages in. So you would basically do all the same steps that we did today, except for this one here. The pages are actually sewn into each of the three sections of the book with a simple stitch to hold the pages inside the cover. So that's another way you can do it as well. Cheryl, quick question. So I think I believe the video to sew that that's a three hole pamphlet stitch is on the San Francisco public libraries. Oh, yes, because we taught that one before. Yes. So if you're trying to figure out how to sew the book, go ahead and look for, look through the other make and do workshops that the book arts roadshow that's us did, and you'll learn how to do this sewing stitch that you can combine with the exquisite corpse book. Yeah, I think that's it. Congratulations, you just made an exquisite corpse book with that. Show your friends how to make them and also follow the same Cisco public library on social media. And I believe the hashtag that you can post pictures to is hashtag make and do SFPL. So if you make your books, take a photo of them post them, then the folks at San Francisco public library and us, we can see them. Also follow us, the book arts roadshow on our Instagram, which is at book arts roadshow. One more time. This session has been recorded. And so you can find this session and all the other sessions that we did. All of our other book making workshops that we did with the San Francisco public library on the San Francisco public library YouTube channel. And I do want to say thanks again to the friends of the San Francisco public library for making this and the other workshops possible. Without them, we just, we wouldn't be here. We appreciate being invited somewhere else when I just have to give credit to the drawings. CK them all. So thank you everybody for joining us today. It was wonderful to see you have a safe holiday season, and we're looking forward to seeing you in person sometime in the future. Bye now. We just keep waving because we don't know when we're getting cut off.