2007 Printable Manual - Texas State Library and Archives ...

Sail Away With Books!
Origami With Dollar Bills: Another Way to Impress People With Your Money by Duy
Nguyen.
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr and Ronald Himler.
Under the Sea Origami by Duy Nguyen.
Books to Booktalk
The Big Wave by Pearl Buck.
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth.
The Letters by Kazumi Yumoto.
The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson.
Bulletin Board
Cover the board with colored butcher paper and add the heading “Fold Away the Heat!”
across the top. Attach several origami aquatic creatures to the board along with unfolded
diagrams. Use Origami Sea Life by John Montroll, available from Dover Publications,
www.doverpublications.com, if you need patterns for an assortment of sea creatures.
A display may also be made with origami created by teens, or Origami USA has a
traveling exhibit of outstanding origami made by children. Reservations can be made at
www.origami-usa.org/obc.html.
Refreshments
Serve Chinese fortune cookies, which look like origami, or prepackaged Japanese food
snacks, such as wasabi peas or rice crackers. These may be purchased at grocery stores
a nd from Asian Food Grocer at www.asianfoodgrocer.com.
Incentives
Give away origami paper, diagrams, and/or books. Dover Publications,
www.doverpublications.com, sells small-format origami books for less than $4.00 each,
before discounts for bulk orders.
Games and Activities
Fold-in
Origami is an ancient art that has been around for hundreds of years. Explain the history
of origami while allowing teens to choose a project from the books provided. Have a
copy machine available to make copies of the diagrams, or make them in advance. Divide
the teens into groups or allow them to work individually to fold the various creatures they
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