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Origami Instructional Handouts
By Rebecca | April 14, 2008
Last week I planned an Origami activity for Cub Scouts. I was unable to get an Origami expert to teach the boys so I spent several hours online looking and learning.
As a youth, I had “learned” Origami several times, some of them at church activities. I always enjoyed them and I loved the little creations made from paper that I got to take home. The biggest problem for me was that I could never remember how to make them again. Even the simplest designs seemed to escape my memory. To this end, I wanted to send the boys home with more than a cool Origami project, I wanted to send them home with instructions to make them again.
I finally found a brief yet comprehensive handout for beginning Origami. It covers basic symbols used in Origami patterns, provides patterns for commonly used “bases” in Origami and then patterns for several shapes that can be made from these “bases.”
The handout is in 4 PDFs. The first two are the easy patterns and bases. The last two are a little more advanced. (I was able to do projects from both pages with 8 and 9 year old boys.)
To download the first easy page click here. For the second easy page click here. The first advanced page is here and the second advanced page is here.
For our activity I printed a copy of the entire handout for each Scout. We used squares of scrap paper to fold the simple bases and then the frog from the waterbomb base. Then I gave each Scout a sheet of printed Origami paper and told them they were free to make out of it whatever they wanted.
It turned out that the most of the boys wanted to practice a little more with the scrap paper. The other Den Leader helped some of the boys to fold the bird base and make a bird with flapping wings. (Even though it was on the advanced page, most of the boys were able to manage it with a little help.)
This handout is fairly self-explanatory. It could be used for activities for youth of all ages or for an interactive Family Home Evening. It could also be a useful babysitting tool. It definitely contributed to a fun and educational activity for our Den Meeting.
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