Whenever possible, I try to introduce a new craft with a good story book. An inspirational story that has nice pictures always gets the kids excited about trying something that is unfamiliar to them.
One book that I recently discovered and really enjoyed was Butterflies for Kiri.
The story is about a young girl named Kiri who likes to make things. For her Birthday she received some origami papers from her Auntie Lu. After a couple of failed attempts at folding the paper Kiri becomes disappointed about the beautiful paper tearing. She continues to practice with regular paper and in the end makes a colourful picture that contains a perfectly folded butterfly!
We decided to give origami a try too.
The last page of the book has illustrated instructions on how to fold your own butterfly. It's quite a simple pattern so it's a great way to successfully introduce origami to children.
I really like that the story illustrates that
"if at first you don't succeed try, try again ".
I highly recommend giving it a try with your kids!
"if at first you don't succeed try, try again ".
I highly recommend giving it a try with your kids!
Very pretty! Love how simple they are, too.
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