DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Simple Origami Lamb

This is extremely basic origami meant for ages 4 thru 7. 

It teaches them a few of the basic folds but lets them create a project in less than 10 steps.
 

Materials:

• square piece of white paper (cut a piece of computer paper to make a square
• OPTIONAL:  black marker
• OPTIONAL:  wiggly eyes and glue
• OPTIONAL:  cotton balls and glue
   

TERMINOLOGY -- MOUNTAIN FOLD:

fold the paper under -- see how it looks like a mountain?

TERMINOLOGY -- VALLEY FOLD:

fold the paper to the front

Instructions:

• to make a square piece of paper, valley fold diagonally and cut off the excess

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• valley fold the paper in half diagonally  (so you have a triangle)

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• turn the triangle so the point is facing toward you.
   
• valley fold the paper in half diagonally again (so you have a smaller triangle).  
  • crease and unfold
     
• this gives you a crease in the center of your larger triangle to use as a guide for the next step

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• on each side, valley fold a triangle about 3/4 of the way to the crease to make the ears

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• this is what you end up with

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• mountain fold a small bit of the bottom tip of the triangle

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• mountain fold a small bit of each ear

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OPTIONAL: 

• glue pieces of cotton balls onto the ears
  OR glue cotton balls above the lambs eyes.
   
• Glue wiggly eyes onto the face
   
• draw a black nose (and eyes) onto the face.

 

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