It's Origami Time

I picked up this book at the library the other day and decided to bust it out tonight and try out a few things with the kids. Over all, it was a success. We had no tears and they even asked if we could do it again tomorrow. I did learn one lesson, and that was to try everything first myself before having the girls join in. I did that with the house and the cup and then got a little over confident and tried to wing it with the spinning top. We never did figure that one out.



Kassy's cup in progress.

Trista was so proud of her house that she asked if she could keep it forever.



This was the ill-fated spinning top. I had Kassy hold it up to show what it should have looked like.



The cups were a success. The girls wanted to laminate them so that we could really use them.



Bella's having fun. It's really starting to look like something.

Here are a few fun facts I learned from my nifty little origami book.

*Leonardo DaVinci folded parchment into flying machines to understand the principles of flight. Many consider DaVinci the father of paper airplanes.

*The magician Harry Houdini amazed audiences when he folded paper into into unusual shapes. In 1922, he wrote a book called Houdini's Paper Magic, which included four origami models.