Origami

Program date: 5/1/19

In the fall, I couldn’t keep origami books on the shelf. So in January when we started talking about programming for the spring, I decided an origami program would probably go over really well!

This was a PTO program as well, so we were pretty well attended. The kids got to make a few different projects and some of them were really cool and different!

I had a few adult helpers for this one, because I wanted to have a person at each station. A couple of them were staff, and a couple were volunteers. It worked out really well! I’m going to go through project by project and post the instructions and also pictures of the kids making the projects.

Fortune Teller

Origami Fortune Tellers:

1. Lay your paper flat on the table and fold one corner straight up to meet the opposite corner
2. Unfold it so it is flat again, but you have a crease across the middle
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 with the other two corners of the square
4. Your paper should be unfolded, but should have two creases in it in an “X” across the square
5. One by one, take the corners and fold them into the center where the creases cross
6. Flip the paper over, leaving those edges folded down
7. Now fold the corners in to the center again
8. Bring each corner in and fold towards the middle (as per bottom right photo).

Ring

Bookmark

1. Start by turning your paper upside down like a diamond.
2. Fold bottom point up to meet top corner.
3. Fold right point up to the middle point.
4. Fold left point up to the middle point.
5. Unfold both end points.
6. Fold one half of middle point down to the bottom edge.
7. Fold the right point back up to the middle point.
8. Then tuck the end underneath the fold.
9. Fold the left point back up to the middle point.
10. Then tuck the end underneath the fold.

Animal

I don’t have exact copies of the instructions for this station because our wonderful speech teacher volunteered to come up with ideas and run the table herself. I know she did cranes and frogs, so I am going to add a link to Pinterest instructions, but I am not 100% certain of the steps she took with the kiddos.

Origami Crane

Origami Frog

 

As it turns out, a lot of my photos are overlaps of different projects, and you can see several examples in each, so I am going to post them all below: