The canopy is made up of three pieces.
The two sides and the many folded top.
Do a few dry fits (no glue) to be sure you are lining up the the right tab to the right cut on the side piece.
One of the tricks to gluing cardstock like this is not to use too much glue on the tabs.
Apply some glue to a single center tab and spread it around, especially towards the outside edges. You should have a light overall "skin" of wet glue.
Joint the top tab to the side piece.
It helps to have a long, smooth jawed tweezers to pressure hold the tab in place.
Continue doing single tab gluing until both sides are glued to the top.
Look on the inside. If one of the tabs is raised, you can sneak some glue under the tab using your knife blade.
Here's the finished canopy,
Inside and outside.
I thought the canopy shape would be more like a rectangular box shape with the bottom side open. I found out later the sides flare out and have a wider span than the top - more of a trapezoidal shape.
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