Origami For Kids

I have Ilan Garibi's "Paper Creatures" exhibit, upcoming September 9 at the Jaffa Museum in Israel (more on that soon), to thank for getting me back into the swing of things.  These pieces are not actually in the exhibit but are some of the later products of the swing, which is ongoing.  Smiles, S

and here are some more birds from the same series, a little later.  These next ones were shown in the "Folding Squared" exhibit of OASIS, the O rigami A rtist s of Is rael, at "Siman She'elah" Gallery in Kibbutz Amir, Israel, December 2016. A few other images from that exhibit are here .

These are all from uncut A4 sheets of cover-stock.  And of the A4-- I'm only using the bottom edge, so that three of the paper's edges remain untouched (except of course for the consumed parts). The aim is to have the face peer out mysteriously from the interior of the sheet. You get the idea. Of course there's no law that says these have to be kept in their flattish state:   Cheers, Saadya

 A Reception of an Idea of Yoshizawa's Origami can be done as a doodle—you pick up a scrap of paper, say the receipt from your recent  shopping expedition, and play with it absent-mindedly at the outdoor cafe, bending it this way and that till it starts looking like an animal, all while waiting for the espresso to arrive. But you can also design origami deliberately, so that it will seem like a doodle. Here is a an extremely simple set-up that you can actually do with a grocery receipt: I venture to say that you can make—maybe not ALL the heads of all animals from this start (with mild variations), but certainly a good many of them. A head that’s mounted on a long neck or a pole. With a bit of finessing you can squeeze out a good lower-jaw too. Since the set-up is so simple and the number of folds is small, you can do this with thick “artistic” paper too, like Canson Mi-Teintes, and preserve the unblemished, unbroken  expanse of the sheet, with all its glorious textur...

  This turns out to be a very popular sculpture, with an appeal to horse lovers everywhere, both inside and outside the origami world. I'm often asked often how I came up with it. The answer is basically what you would expect. I have several ‘full horse’ models that I'm still tinkering with (have been since 1989....). On one,  the ears were unsatisfactory; so, in 2004 while out at a fast-food shop I did a blow-up-study , focusing only on the head.  That left excess paper, which got folded out of the way in overlapping flaps.  The results—a little like barn or stable doors with the head peeking out—pleased me; and so, a New Model .  Recently (2011), prompted by a fan who was enthused by just this shape, I picked the  model up again and put much improved eyes & ears on it.   Now, the above is easy enough to say. But it also happens that during those seven years of gestation, the thinking in origami has progressed, and mine has along with it. 1. For ...