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2007 Texas Reading Club Manual
Developmental Needs and Assets
This program fulfills teens’ developmental need for creative expression and their need to
learn and achieve. It also provides opportunities for positive social interactions with
peers and adults. Developmental assets supported by the program include constructive
use of time, commitment to learning, and social competencies. For more information
about positive developmental assets for young adults, visit the Search-Institute website at
www.search-institute.org/assets/forty.html.
Preparation and Promotion
Select books about origami with folding diagrams for display during the program. You
may wish to purchase or borrow Origami Sea Life by John Montroll.
Make copies of origami diagrams from books and web sites. If teens have access to the
Internet and printers, they can print free diagrams. If computer access is not available
during the program, print some of the instructions in advance to distribute. Instructions
can be found at Joe Wu’s Origami Page, www.orig ami.as and at K’s Origami,
http://origami.ousaan.com/studio/index.html.
Purchase multicolored origami paper and/or specialty design origami paper with patterns.
It is available from most art supply stores and from Art Supplies Online at
www.artsuppliesonline.com. You will also find origami books with paper at your local
bookstores and at Amazon.com.
To promote this program, create a display of origami aquatic creatures and other animals
along with several books about origami. You will find instructions to make some on the
following websites. You may wish to bookmark these for the teens.
Fish Origami by Tammy Yee
www.tammyyee.com/origamifish.html
Origami Fish at The Art of Japan
h ttp://library.thinkquest.org/27458/nf/origami/diagrams/fish.html
Making an Origami Fish
http://fish.uc.org/misc/2002-06-15/how-to.pdf
Books to Display
Complete Book of Origami: Step-by-Step Instructions in over 1,000 Diagrams / 48
Original Models by Robert J. Lang.
Origami by Anne Akers Johnson.
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