Showing posts with label volume. Show all posts
Showing posts with label volume. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 December 2012

Discovering KIRIGAMI - space with paper, for Christmas

CHRISTMAS TREES
We are going to construct a pop-up Christmas Tree using another Japanese technique named Kirigami.


Here you will find the template to be downloaded:

Instructions. By Robert Sabuda.

We are going to use color paper and we will use them as hanging trees.


SNOWFLAKES
6-pointed Paper Snowflakes instructions. Kostyn proposed to do them and... it was a great idea! In fact is a good example of polygons and rotational symmetry.





Thursday, 15 November 2012

Discovering ORIGAMI - volume with paper, for Thanksgiving

This will be our second task for Thanksgiving Day. You only need two sheets of white paper to begin practising ORIGAMI

The design requires two sheets of paper. The first is used to make the body. The second sheet is used to make the fanned tail. Is it possible to make the tail in two colors although the paper gets thick and it often slides out of place. Using tissue paper to make the fanned tail allows multiple sheets to be stacked and folded without it getting overly thick.

Kids Turkey

José María V. (1st B) will show us how to create another type of turkey with legs: