origami 4 kindergarten

The other day my mom taught kindergarten for a day (the real teacher was busy). She invited me to show the kids some origami things I have made and to teach them a simple project. So Monday afternoon I came up to school. I showed them an origami caterpillar, a pecking crow, my origami firework (see older posts) and a few other things. Then I taught them how to fold a paper dog face. They really enjoyed it!

Showing them the firework...

The little drinking bird...

Leading them through the steps of folding...

...and their finished puppies!

I think they really loved cutting and folding, but even more so, the final result!

origami firework

Recently I have been getting into origami. I especially enjoy the module origami. I have found several sites that have free diagrams. One of them,

http://www.spitenet.com/origami/yami.shtml

had a really neat origami module that was fairly simple, called a "Firework". I tried it and (for once!) came out with something that actually worked!
Here it is:

To make it change shapes you grab two opposite corners and gently turn the firework inside out.

The firework changing shapes...

...and back to where it started.