so here is a little flower. it's made out of 6 pieces of square paper, so it's not actually origami. also, i later realized that i used scissors to cut the 8.5x11 paper into a square, AND i used a glue stick to stick the pieces together. oops. fail. oh well - i do what i want.
so...i couldn't find my old origami book - maybe i gave it away, or it got lost along the way during one of my many moves. but i found the pattern from this website.
i like that this is made from many parts, though. one piece of the flower by itself isn't that attractive or special. but when you put them all together, they make a lovely flower. maybe it is a lesson along the lines of "no one is an island", or our innate need for community and interdependence. i don't know, these are just some things i've been thinking about lately.
anyway, here is today's creation....
see? just one piece. not very special.
but when you put them together, this is what you get.
That's beautiful! Amazing what you can do with paper! I am, however, origami challenged. I have nightmares of 5th grade trying to make a crane and then again trying to teach it. Totally a big mess! Good job! How are you enjoying the blog world?
ReplyDeletehaha! i think i remember that! (or had a similar experience - i can't remember if we had 5th grade class together or not) i do like origami though. and this was not that difficult - ONCE i figured out that i was supposed to make more than one and put them together :)
ReplyDeleteit's going alright so far. still kind of weird to me, but that's all part of the process, i'm sure.