Re: [Origami] help with butterfly (FWD)

2015-05-07 Thread Anne LaVin
Forwarding reply from Yahoo user Diana Lee : On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Megan Williams wrote: > Hello folders - my daughter (almost 7) is trying to make the butterfly in > this tutorial. She is stuck at step 8. We cannot decipher what to do here > (I am not much help as she is truly much be

Re: [Origami] teaching reverse-folds

2015-05-07 Thread JC Nolan
Hi Andrew, It's been a long time since I've been teaching, but back in the day when I did I would hold up a separate square of paper, fold it diagonally into a triangle and then, without pre-creasing the fold I would demonstrate the action in the air using the words "Now, stuff the point down

[Origami] Re. Folding Butterfly

2015-05-07 Thread Rosemary
Hello! When you come to Step 7 you will notice that as you raise the triangle the sides at the base of the triangle will naturally begin to "cup." Gently pull on the triangle until these cups form at the sides allowing you to fold the tip of the triangle over. Flip the model over and reinfor

Re: [Origami] help with butterfly

2015-05-07 Thread leslie cefali
> On May 6, 2015, at 8:29 AM, Megan Williams wrote: > > She is stuck at step 8 After doing step 7, ( where you fold the tip just a bit over the top edge), flip the model to the other side. You will see the tip, ( a small triangle peeking over the top edge, from previous step). Fold that tiny

[Origami] OUSA's 2015 Annual Collection

2015-05-07 Thread DANIEL SCHER
Hi everyone, OrigamiUSA has just posted the table of contents for this year's Origami Collection. You can view it here: https://origamiusa.org/thecollection. Attendees at this year's Annual Convention can pick up the book in person. You can also pre-order the book (here: https://origamiusa.or

Re: [Origami] help with butterfly

2015-05-07 Thread A.M. van de Beek
-Original Message- From: Megan Williams Sent: 06 May, 2015 15:29 She is stuck at step 8. Fold over the little triangle that sticks out after step 7. Origards, Miranda

Re: [Origami] Origami timeline?

2015-05-07 Thread Anne LaVin
(Forwarding reply for Yahoo user "prince eager" ) On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Jorge E. Jaramillo wrote: > ...For this year someone proposed to do an > exhibition showing different ages of origami with models that were > representative somehow of one era (innovative, groundbreaking or those

Re: [Origami] teaching reverse-folds

2015-05-07 Thread Rachel Katz
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Malachi Brown wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Andrew Hudson > wrote: > > > Any tips on teaching reverse-folds more efficiently? Right now I usually > > have to walk around and check each student individually to make sure they > > get it right, and when yo

[Origami] help with butterfly

2015-05-07 Thread Megan Williams
Hello folders - my daughter (almost 7) is trying to make the butterfly in this tutorial. She is stuck at step 8. We cannot decipher what to do here (I am not much help as she is truly much better at origami than me). http://kdesignpapier.blogspot.de/2015/04/origami-schmetterling.html Any insights

Re: [Origami] teaching reverse-folds

2015-05-07 Thread kdiannestephens
Any tips on teaching reverse-folds more efficiently? IRF and ORF are actually sequences, not folds, which can cause confusion for some. Break apart the sequence into individual steps. Changing the focus to the last step of the sequence (the IRF long valley fold or ORF long mountain fold)

[Origami] Teaching reverse-folds

2015-05-07 Thread Robert C. Smith
Sometimes when I teach, I'll bring along photocopies/handouts illustrating the various folds that I want to demonstrate in the models that I'll be teaching, especially when it comes to inside-outside reverse folds, remember children are very visual. -Robert