Origami

Thursday 20th of November 2008

CAS element: Creativity
Time: 1 hour

Using models, we have to create a range of animal by just folding paper. I enjoy very much origami as it is relaxing and I managed to make A bird, an elephant, and a fish. At the end, when enough animals had been made, we will all glue them on a big paper to create a scene.

Thursday 27th of November 2008

CAS element: Creativity
Time: 1 hour

We continued to make animals. The ones that need to be added to the list would be a penguin, a dog and a crabe. I think I got the hang of it, as I grasp the folding technique faster now. I find it fun to create things just out of a piece of paper and a bit of dexterity.


Thursday 4th of December 2008

CAS element: Creativity
Time: 1 hour

Today we started doing higher level, four and five stars, origamis. The first challenge was a chicken, which I managed fairly quickly to finish, however the second one, the rabbit, was more complex and got me thinking. I even brought it home to finish it, as I could not figure out the last two step.

Thursday 11th of December 2008

CAS element: Creativity
Time: 1 hour

We continued with the high level ones. I made a beautiful mice and an adorable koala. I kind like doing that now, every new one is now seen like a challenge to test my skills. Each success makes me more eager, more determined to challenge the next one... so much for... origami!


Thursday 18th of December 2008

CAS element: Creativity
Time: 1 hour

Today I got to make the scorpion. What an honor and a privilege. Just looking at all the steps, I was lost, gone, strike by the complexity of them. However when I started folding, the complexity of the folds opened up to me and even though it took me the entire hour, I succeeded in giving life to my scorpion.


Thursday 22nd of January 2009

CAS element: Creativity
Time: 1 hour

Today was the last day to make the animals, before exposing them into a scene. For my last creation I decided to make the complex frilled lizard. For this one I had to use my dexterity at its full capacity to achieve the desired result. And that was it the lizard was made out of pink paper.


Thursday 5th of February 2009

CAS element: Creativity
Time: 1 hour

Today we were divided into two groups and were assigned each a school board. With all the paper animals we had constructed, we had to fabricate a scene in which each animal was found in its natural ecosystem. I had a good group; we worked well together. We started to make a bright yellow sun, a deep blue sea and an island of soft sand and green trees. I found the activity very amusing and I cannot wait for next week to finish the fresco.


Thursday 26th of March 2009

CAS element: Creativity
Time: 1 hour

We tried to finish the fresco that had been started by adding more animals on land, in the sky, in the water and even in the paper trees. At this end the scene looked a bit crowded, but the mixture of many different colors made it look quite pretty. I was proud.

Thursday 2nd of April 2009

CAS element: Creativity
Time: 1 hour

Today we just finalizes some details that were not perfect yet, to really make the scene neat. Sometimes you only need on or two default to ruin a work. We then cut out letters out of colored paper to right at the top 'CAS IB1'. We finished by writing 'Origami Project' and our names by hand.