Papercraft with Kindergarten and First Grade

 The Kindergarten and first grade classes have spent their last trip through the STEM Lab working on some creative paper crafting. Most of the week was spent creating basic origami models. I have taught origami before, but never to students this young. I confess to not being sure how well this would go, but the children far exceeded my hopes with their skill, creativity, and perseverance when they faced challenges. 

Our first model was a cat. There were so many fantastic creations!

Next we made dogs.

We switched gears a bit for our next model. First we decorated our paper squares and then we folded them into tulips. Students drew vases with flower stems in them and then attached their flowers to create a 3D work of art.

All of the origami links are from redtedart.com.

After a few days of origami we did something completely different and made animations following a guide for 2 page flipbooks from the Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium. These were all completely amazing and the students were so excited by what they made.

Check back soon to see what the other grades are up to these days in the lab!