Rubber Band Pop-Up Gingerbread House

    Photo by Elaine Wolfe

    This blog post is a reference to a project by Elaine Wolfe that she posted on her own blog on blogspot.com. Description by Elaine: “The entire gingerbread design and the embellishments were coded in TurtleStitch and then opened in the Silhouette program for cutting on an electronic paper cutter.”

    Required Materials
    • Cardstock
    • Rubber Band
    Tools
    • Glue

    When pressed flat and released, the house pops up thanks to a Rubber Band Pop-Up Mechanism!

    Screenshot of the TurtleStitch code for the Rubber Band Pop-Up Mechanism.

    You can find the code that Elaine used for the Rubber Band Pop-Up Mechanism here. The code for the gingerbread house and roof is to be found here. Additionally, you can add the decorations to the gingerbread house:

    Elaine Wolfe has developed numerous inspiring code resources on TurtleStitch under her username Elaine and she has created a fabulous blog to highlight her TurtleStitch designs.

    In order to explore the whole description of how to make the , please visit Elaine’s blog post directly!


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    One response to “Rubber Band Pop-Up Gingerbread House”

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      Sophie

      I love this idea!! Thank you!

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