Origami

Jared's big into origami right now, which started with paper airplanes. He gets into trouble a lot for filling our kitchen with airplanes of every size and shape! Well, I should say that he gets into trouble for not picking them up. Not just for making them. Luckily, Dad has access to a steady supply of scratch paper from work.

He was very excited to find an origami video at the library, too. He sat on the couch with his lap desk and a stack of pre-cut scratch paper squares and folded away to his heart's content.

He's also made a rather large stack of paper boats. He makes everything into paper boats if he's bored. Flyers he picks up from who-knows-where, a popcorn bag from the baseball game, even foil from his hot dog!

He was awfully disappointed that regular paper is much too small to make wearable hats, so he solved his problem by taping four pieces together. Then he folded his "King's Hat" by modifying a traditional paper boat.

For his first homework assignment, he is supposed to put 20 identical items in a Zip-loc bag. We could have counted out 20 marshmallows or Cheerios like everyone else, but no, we had to make things more complicated. Instead, we made 20 origami "Lucky Stars." This is a very odd kind of origami, but aren't they so cute?

Click here for a link to instructions on how to make these cute little stars!