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Paper City
I was drawing these little people on the train to Seattle last Saturday (to see the Alexander Calder Exhibit), and thought it would be amusing to turn them into little paper dolls. So I sketched some buildings for them and made a happy little paper city. Yes, you can join in on the fun. There is a template you can download and print below. It might also be nice to color them.
Update: To see more Paper City Toys, click here!
Click on the templates below, then print. Fold along the dotted lines first, then cut along the thin solid lines across the top and bottom. In the photos above, I printed out two cityscapes. For the people, I thought it looked best to leave some white around the edges when cutting. I printed on a matte photo paper.
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Hi Joel,
I'm writting you from Spain. In two hours we are driving to spend some relaxing days by the beach. Paper City is already packaged to play some hours with our 18 months old Sara.
Thank you, and congratulations for your work!
Hello Joel! Found your blog just a couple of days ago! Love your work and thanks for sharing SO MANY awesome ideas. I am an art teacher and used your paper people idea in my Saturday class last weekend. It was a big hit. I posted pictures on flickr.
Congratulations on your book.
Hi Joel,
Love your work. We have included some of your great projects on our monthly newsletter. Can't wait till your book is out.
I'm sure it'll be greater seller for you!
I just read about your site in our local, Sunday, newspaper. I teach kids grades Pk-5 in Wichita Falls, TX. I hope you’ll be glad to know that I’m adding it to my file and plan to share your super site with other teachers and parents. I’m so grateful to you for making them available to us at no charge. I teach in a low income school and I love to get the kids to go back to using imagination and their own talents to entertain themselves. I’m certainly not against technology as I am the technology specialist at school. You ought to be in our lab when I get a class of 22 four year olds each on a computer to themselves. They are fearless but I also want them to have other ideas to fall back on when they don’t have their electronic toys handy!
So here’s a Texas size Thanks-a-Million for sharing your wonderful talent!
sPoirot
This is so cute and creative! I think I’ll need to print these out for my little girl and I to play with soon :) Found you through Frugal Family Fun Blog and am now following on Facebook!
We are dealing with a postal strike here and I am going to use these to teach my kids about how the mail gets delivered, although it is lovely enough to just play with anyway!!
I simply cannot download and print these wonderful paper cities, please help me. I have tried your remarks to others, and tried them but to no avail.
Thank you,
Loretta
Thanks everyone!
Loretta – Sorry you’re having trouble. I plan on turning these templates to PDF, as it seems easier for people to print. I’ll do it when I get back from New York. Until then, try printing paper city paris, which is in PDF, and let me know if that works for you.
http://madebyjoel.com/2011/08/paper-city-paris.html
Hi Joel! Love your city! This week on my blog I’m creating super hero paper action figures. One of my commenters had the idea of giving my super heros + your paper city as a gift to wee ones. The super hero can save the city! Loved this idea. Thought you would too, and had to share! Congrats on the mag article. Got my own copy! :) Love your work. ~Katie Moon, illustrator, oohmoon.com
soooo wonderful! And most of all! that you share it! Thank you so much, I fully recommend this page
Hi Joel, I’ve just discovered your blog and wow, it’s SO good. Can’t believe I haven’t found myself here before. My daughter and I often draw little people and animals together, we love cutting and pasting and making stuff together, but I haven’t found a way to really engage my little son who’s nearly 3 and would much rather play with his cars than draw up at the table with his mum! BUT… I know he’s gonna love paper city and I’ve picked up lots of great ideas right here. Thank you for sharing it all.
Thanks for the kind note Sarah! Glad you found the site!
Joel, these Paper projects are amazing little works of art. I love the Paris set. I can’t wait to print them all out.
Hi, Joel, I would like to add your paper city Paris as a free gift to a Paris story I sell to people. Would this be allright?
Great Things you do! I am totally fascinated
nessa
paper lover
fantastic work! more than inspiring
Want to talk to you! Gonna email…
this is so cool. i am throwing a 6 year old party next wednesday and your paper city will be a big part of it. i love it! paper dolls in a paper city, here we come!
I’m from Brasil… Thank you…
Hi, Joel. We have been trying to print out your wonderful paper cities, but the templates seem to be too large. When printing the cities, the characters, buildings, etc., they are being cut-off. I am unable to get the entire template on one sheet of paper, only two of the paper characters are printing off, and not completely. What are we doing wrong? Thank you!
Hi Ingrid. I just now updated the images to PDF. I think your printer will automatically adjust it to fit on the page now. Click on the images and give it a try. Have fun! (I’ve been trying to update all of the jpeg templates to pdf, because they aren’t as easy to print. You’re not the only one! Most of the templates on the site now are all PDF though.)