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Mixing Paper Crafting with Paper Playground

Using sliding papers to show and hide a hot air balloon image

Paper Playground provides a novel way to integrate craft with STEM exploration. The paper programs can be incorporated into paper sculpture — or other craft-based objects — enabling students to personalize their learning experiences. In addition to building paper controllers (such as the RGB sliders pictured above), students might also create an entire scene or narrative around STEM concepts. This type of tangible interface links the playful affordances of paper with computational elements.

CU Craft Tech Paper Playground page

RGB sliders using markers on one paper program

Learn more at the CU Craft Tech Paper Playground page.

The Paper Playground demo projects using paper crafting are included with Paper Playground by default in Creator when using local storage (see root/server/data/default-data). Find the templates used in the demos at the CU Craft Tech website.

Paper frog pop open mouth to show or hide a paper program