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Last week I missed Arty Farty Friday, but I will certainly make it up to you today.
What could you do with a sheet of paper?
I’d either write a list on it (shopping, books, post ideas) or I’d use it as a wrapper for my old chewing gum.
The documentary Between the Folds shows what amazing things others can create using a single sheet and a gift of folding.
This is not merely a documentary about origami, believe me, I made that mistake and was discouraged until I had nothing better to watch.
This beautiful documentary shows folding paper as a means to create art, solve mathematical puzzles, but also as means to making scientific breakthroughs that can influence the way we live our lives.
I dare you to watch it and not be compelled to at least learn how to fold the most basic origami shapes!
Here’s an instruction on how to fold an origami crane:
I Want to be a Pin Up 
I love origamis, but the only one I’m able to do is a frog and it can even jump!!! 😉
LOL! That’s more than I can do, although after watching this documentary I vowed to get my hands on a book and try out some shapes.
Predictions? I’ll get the first 4 instructions right and then I’ll be totally lost shouting: How the hell did they do that? What the hell should I do??? 😉
LOL
If I can find them, I’ll take a picture of the figures my daughter has done. When she still lived at home, she used to have lots of them hanging up in her room as mobiles. Fantastic stuff, and I think kids doing this can develop something in them that can undo the brain numbing of social media.
The documentary shows how origami can be used at school, when teaching children math. I truly believe it helps kids to understand science better. I wish someone taught me math this way instead of killing me with boredom so that now I’m what you could call mathematically challenged 😉
I’m in the middle of watching it. A keeper!
Yup, love it too 😉
I love origami. It is so incredibly beautiful.
My mum collects sausage dog stuff (aka duchshunds) and has hundreds of figures big and small, so for Xmas one year I ordered an origami one to complete the collection and it’s just so beautiful 🙂