Grab and Go Kits: Origami for Kids
These Grab and Go Kits are available from the Annex at 1 John Street in Dumbo, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10am-3pm, while supplies last.
Provided materials
- Origami paper
- Craft stick (to use as a “folding bone”)
- Eye stickers
Suggested how to
Use the step-by-step instructions to create a dog or a fox. If you’re up for a challenge, try the frog that really jumps!
You can use the eye stickers and pens or pencils to decorate the finished piece.
There is a craft stick with the kit. Use this to make your folds very crisp. This is also known as a “folding bone,” which artisans use to fold paper.
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Origami is an art form that was probably invented over one thousand years ago in Japan or China. Since it was invented so long ago, scholars have not been able to say for sure where exactly it came from!
Paper was invented in 105 C.E. in China by a man named Tsai Lun. The way paper is made has not changed much in nearly two thousand years. Plant or fabric fibers are mixed with a lot of water (called a “pulp slurry”), then spread over a screen and drained. The drained fibers are then peeled off the screen and dried.
The earliest known reference to the art of folded paper appears in a poem written by Ihara Saikaku, a Japanese poet. In 1797, Akisato Rito wrote one of the earliest known origami instruction books.
Click here for more origami instruction books for kids in our catalog!
Source: "Origami." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 3 Dec. 2014. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/origami/58330. Accessed 28 Apr. 2021.
These Grab and Go Kits are available from the Annex at 1 John Street in Dumbo, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10am-3pm, while supplies last.
Provided materials
- Origami paper
- Craft stick (to use as a “folding bone”)
- Eye stickers
Suggested how to
Use the step-by-step instructions to create a dog or a fox. If you’re up for a challenge, try the frog that really jumps!
You can use the eye stickers and pens or pencils to decorate the finished piece.
There is a craft stick with the kit. Use this to make your folds very crisp. This is also known as a “folding bone,” which artisans use to fold paper.
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Origami is an art form that was probably invented over one thousand years ago in Japan or China. Since it was invented so long ago, scholars have not been able to say for sure where exactly it came from!
Paper was invented in 105 C.E. in China by a man named Tsai Lun. The way paper is made has not changed much in nearly two thousand years. Plant or fabric fibers are mixed with a lot of water (called a “pulp slurry”), then spread over a screen and drained. The drained fibers are then peeled off the screen and dried.
The earliest known reference to the art of folded paper appears in a poem written by Ihara Saikaku, a Japanese poet. In 1797, Akisato Rito wrote one of the earliest known origami instruction books.
Click here for more origami instruction books for kids in our catalog!
Source: "Origami." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 3 Dec. 2014. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/origami/58330. Accessed 28 Apr. 2021.
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