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Origami By: Ethan C Introduction it is easier to say origami than orikami! Origami is a very fun wordand the meaning is fun too! Different kinds ofThere are many stories about origamiorigami and there are alsomillions of kinds of origami. Origami is used for different things: decoration, If you don’t know the entertainment, culture, symbolmeaning of the word origami, it for things, etc. Many peoplemeans folded paper in Japanese. make origami with square paper.Ori- means folded, and -gami The first origamis were madecomes from the word -kami, for culture or ceremonies,meaning paper. The reason thatit is origami, not orikami, is that

such as a funeral. People Jeremy Shafer, a youtuber, andbelieved that when you pass on, it really helps it glide. First getyou need things for the an A4 printer paper, then foldafterlife. They folded paper it in half. Unfold and fold boththings. Houses, furniture, and top corners to the middle. Then,even money! They burned them fold the top down, so thatso people who passed on would there are two flaps. The topget it once they reach heaven. flap should be an upside downThen people started to use triangle. Then, fold the twothem for entertainment. One of new top corners down, not allthe first entertainment origami the way, leave about 2 cm spacewas the famous origami crane, I between the tip and the top ofthink it is pretty easy and the upside down triangle flap.really fun to play with. Then fold the tip of the triangle up, covering the Happy flying! previous tips. Fold the two sides down to the middle. Fold Modern origami has more in half and you are done! Thepossibilities. Origami was only little tweak that Jeremyused for certain things back Shafer discovered is that pullthen, but today, origami is used the lock part (triangle tip) andfor more things. People fold pull it down a little bit. Thatmodern things like origami should create a little spacecomputers, origami iPhone, and between the wing and theeven little fingers puppets! second flap. If you make theModern origami includes paper space too big, it will fly reallyplanes. Did you know the most high. We don’t want to do thatrecent record was thrown by (unless you want it to). I onceJoe Ayoob and designed by John accidently flew it up the roof!Collins in 2012 was called So, watch out and happy flying!Suzanne? It flew 69.14 meters(226 feet 10 inches)! One of the Tips for good origamibest paper planes is called thenakamura lock. It can fly very Do you like origami? Fromfar. There are many origami 1 to 10, how much do you likebooks, such as: The Strange origami? Lots of people like it.Case Of Origami Yoda by Tom Many people like origami butAngleberger. There is also a isn’t good at it. In this section, Ilot of origami instructions on will teach you a few tricks toYouTube. Now I will teach you make folding easier. The firsthow to fold the nakamura lock.There is a tweak discovered by

tip is to get a paperclip or This is a chart showing howsomething to flatten the paper many people is good at origami.more, you could also use anyother tools with a flat surface. 1 means your origami skills isn’tThe second tip is that to fold on good. 10 means really good.a flat surface. If you never Look at how many people isn’tfolded anything on a moving good at origami!car or on your lap, believe me, itis really hard. The third tip is Many people today don’tthat if you’re folding an know any origami at all. It isairplane, I recommend you to really important because it canfold accurately, so it could fly help kids focus more. Origami iswell. The fourth tip is to be also a kind of tradition, andpatient when you fold. If you some Japanese/Chinese kidscan’t figure out a step, you don’t know origami either! Ishould put it away, that will think we should not letmake you like origami more, not traditions fade away. It is alsotoo much stress. The last tip is an important part in history.to have fun! Origami is also a kind of art. It calms down the heart and also How important? contains things that are educational, for example, it hasthis chart shows the number of geometric shapes.people who rated origami from1 to 10. There was a total of 14 What do you think aboutanswers. Almost everyone origami?likes origami, but look at thechart below!

Origami is a fun thing to do,but how much do you knoworigami? Is there any kind oforigami that you like? Fill outmy survey here.