Yesterday was the Christmas day; the sun finally showed and it was a good day for going out. However I chose to sit in front of my desk and made lots of paper butterflies.
The idea came from three days ago (last Friday), when I went to a school to read (actually acted) a story to first-grade children. The story was about an animal in the forest, who had a bad mood. Thus my pals and I decided to impersonate an animal each, and asked the kids to do the same.
My first choice was bunny, which was always the animal on top of my head when being asked to pick one.
 | We were also asked to make our own name tags, so my idea was to fold an origami rabbit and attach it to the name tag. However, for some reason, the name tag was already full of butterfly-shaped holes when I realized (I bought a butterfly-shaped hole puncher in Japan). Thus...I have no choice but use cute butterfly as my role, and hence made an origami butterfly as the attached symbol. |
The activity was a huge success. The kids loved me, and loved my origami butterfly as well. Actually I even made some extra butterflies for the kids in the end that day.
I couldn't forget how much fun it was to fold those butterflies for the kids, which stirred up the idea that why not finding out all the different ways to make butterfly origami, and really folding them out just like different butterfly species?
| No sooner said than done; I picked the color papers and started to fold varied colorful butterflies. By the evening, I had made 12 different "species" of butterflies; some of them have the same "root" of course. I put them at the flowers (some of them are also origami) and took lots of pictures. And finally I arranged them in the box I made...then a beautiful butterfly specimen exhibition was done!! Aren't they vivid? |  |
