Tawhai School

I have recently started an origami club at Tawhai School which runs every Friday lunch time. I had such an interest in the club but can only take 10 students at any one time so have decided to have a rotation where students get to come for five weeks, learn the basics and then some new students will get selected to try it out. The group I am currently working with have come such a long way and have made everything from cats and dogs to newspaper wallets and last week we even attempted the very hard flower ball! We succeeded and this week I have had students coming up to me with ones they made at home. 

Here are some pictures from our week of making the flower ball.

Nikita, Kapish and Yuri are concentrating hard.

The crew!

We all fold at the same time so no one gets left behind.

Final creation! We put all our creations together to make the ball!

Over the last two terms in Room 2 we have been busy making maracas and this week the kids finally got to take them home! It has been a lengthy process with all the layers of papier-mâché and many of the balloons deflating. Once we attached the handles we were able to paint them and some students were even lucky enough to have them sprinkled with glitter. Mrs Gilmour made them all shiny and this week we attached ribbons and bells and they look stunning. Here are some pictures of both the process of making them and the finished products.

Here Siobhan, Alex and Zac are applying the first layer of newspaper. Zac loved playing with the paste.

Heilee with her maraca. I love the metallic blue paint you used!

Kayla with her maraca.

We all gave them one last shake at school.