Ela Borowiec All About Origami

Origami is a paper foldingpaper foldingpaper folding kind of art. The name origami comes from two Japanese words: ori which means foldingfoldingfolding and kami which means paper. The goal of the traditional origami is to transform a square piece of paper into a three‑dimensional sculpturethree‑dimensional sculpturethree‑dimensional sculpture. Origami usually takes the shapesshapes [shape]shapes of animals or flowers. It is important that the shape is made only by folding the paper without using scissors or glue.

Origins

1.1. _____ There are theories that Japan was the first country to start it. But other theories mentionmentionmention China and the invention of paper as the starting point of origami. Today, origami is mostly associated withassociated with, [associate with] associated with Japanese culture but you can find tracestraces [trace]traces of this art throughout Asia and Europe.

Thousand CranecraneCrane Folding

There is a Japanese folk legend in which gods promise a person who foldsfolds [fold] (noun)folds 1000 origami cranes to make their one wish come true. 1.2. _____ The book presented some basic origami instruction and also Japanese culture. However, you could not find a thousand ways of folding a paper crane there.

Past and Present

In the past, origami was the art of folding paper without any use of scissors or glue. Today, there are many variationsvariations [variation]variations of origami. You may find a wet‑foldingwet‑foldingwet‑folding origami technique where you spray the paperspray the paperspray the paper with water in order toin order toin order to make shapes more round. There are also techniques which use glue and cuts in paper to make the designs more stablestablestable.

What Are the Benefits of Paper Folding?

People from all over the world make origami. They want to relax and have a brain challengebrain challengebrain challenge. It helps to develop hand‑eye coordinationhand‑eye coordinationhand‑eye coordination, fine motor skillsfine motor skills [fine motor skill]fine motor skills and concentration. 1.3. _____ There are three basic types of folds. The “Folds of Life” introduce children to origami. The “Folds of Truth” teach basic geometrygeometry geometry. Finally, “Folds of Beauty”are more advancedadvancedadvanced, and are based on shapes like squares, hexagonshexagons [hexagon] hexagons or octagonsoctagons [octagon] octagons.

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