Origami Course

[giro]

Hi all,

In the next few days I have to give a course in origami for kids age 9.

Which models you recommend me to explain? Any recomendation?

Thanks,

David.

[dinogami]

Presuming that (a) you don't want to do the traditional crane, etc., and (b) these are kids with no prior exposure to origami (beyond the occasional paper airplane), and given that kids love dinosaurs and action models, perhaps the Pac-man-like Tyrannosaurus head from Kasahara's Origami Omnibus...? It's a tad on the difficult side, and you may end up having to help many of them, but they always love the result. Leaving off the action, Rachel Katz's simple dinosaur (from an 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper, with the strip torn off to make the sheet square forming the feet) is nice if only because you don't have to supply squares of origami paper.

[Jonnycakes]

Perhaps a masu box, but that might be on the hard side. A simple swan, windmill (the windmill base), pajarita, and other simple models such as those should be good bets.

[Summer]

This might be a little late but for anyone else facing the same situation...
I have found that in my origami tutorials that the traditional cup model always gets a great response: "I can actually DRINK from this?"
I teach at an elementary school to children from grades 3 to 8 and they're always running to the water fountain after this fold to try out their new origami cup!

[legionzilla]

Ancient Dragon, Bahumat and Black Forest Cuckoo clock.

In all seriousness, I would recommend kawasaki rose, Bob Neale's Dragon and various paul jackson designs.

[jogibaer]

or some action models. eg. from Jeremy Shafer