It's been a little while since we had an origami activity, the last being for maths/geometry in Feb 2009.
Today we practiced making 3 things from a book found at our library. We practiced on plain paper first, then each chose their favourite to make with our pretty Japanese origami papers.
Here they are:
Mariposa made the bird (albatross) and Maestro made the house. The other item is a mandarin, but we haven't put a face on him.
I had hoped that we could work on some Kirigami too, but it's another step up with complication. It's something we'll work towards later. With Mother's Day coming up in around 6 weeks, we could have a go at the free pattern available here. Or even from here, which has a larger range of freebies but look more complicated.
6 comments:
Oh they look great!! AAnd a very good tip about having a practice first and then using the Origami paper.
I am showing the links to our eldest tomorow. Our library is lacking with Origami books unfortunately, but will be searching some bookstores :)
This looks fun!
Oh my! Yes. Ditz was working towards 1 000 cranes lol some only the size of her thumbnail. I don't know how she got them so small! She loves origami. We had hopping frogs & even a minature piano!
The miniature piano sounds like it would have been a challenge ... upright or mini grand?
The piano was just an upright & fairly easy I think. I'm pretty sure it was in the Sonlight origami book we got with this unit. Did you get that too?
Ahh...
No, I didn't purchase that book. I'm just relying on library books for the origami. :)
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