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Origami Landscape!

Our Origami project for this year starts with folding an Origami House together as a class. The result of the folding is a basic house shape, which we then decorate with markers.

We discussed the different visual parts of a house, including doors, windows, and even roofing!

Here a student colors in rectangular, bisected windows.

Students were encouraged to be creative and to create a house that would like to live in.

Each student created a very different exterior for their house, using all sorts of patterns and colors.

Here is one student's completed Origami House.

After the houses were decorated, the next step involved incorporating the houses into a full landscape picture. We taped the houses down to a large sheet of paper and then used crayons to fill in the rest of the landscape.

Students were allowed to create any sort of landscape for their houses. Some placed their house in the trees, while others placed theirs on top of mountains. Some students got really creative and even placed their houses in outer space!

Here a student works hard on a crayon tree for her landscape.

The students were also encouraged to cover as much of the white paper space as possible.

The final landscape pictures turned out great and demonstrated our students creativity and commitment to their work.
 
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