Origami Workshop at North Branch, Nov. 22, 2008

Tara R., the librarian/manager at the North Branch made this flyer for my holiday origami workshop. It's a very festive looking flyer, thank you Tara! Thirteen people, young and not so young, showed up and we folded the stars and envelope on this Saturday afternoon. Cal Bears played Stanford that day - it's always a big deal when Cal plays against Stanford so maybe that's why I have a much smaller group of folders this time.



A table full of samples of the folds and ideas of what participants can do with them. On December 14, 2008 from 2pm-3pm at Central Library's Community room on the 3rd floor, I'll have another workshop. Hope that you can come to fold a crane note card, a leaf note card, and I'll also show the double star and envelope folds again.



This book was a gift from Cristina R., a co-worker of mine at North, just in time for my holiday workshops. I used two star folds from the book. Thanks Cristina!





I am with Wendy W., she likes origami and recommends that I should teach origami more often.



My boss, Vivian dropped in to check out some of my display folds on the table.



And Juan C., a good friend, also joined in for a snapshot. Anh-Vu, my forever faithful son, was always on hand to take pictures. Cam on, Vu!









This group of father and kids came in at the last minute, so I did not have enough time to work with them. Sorry folks! The little girl was a very neat folder. Please come to my next workshop at Central, alright guys?





We first tried the star fold with the larger square sheets.



...before we moved into the smaller ones. I find it's easier that way for the beginner and children to learn and practice.















I always tell children or adults who come to my workshop that every crease and fold has to be perfectly neat and straight if they want the object to come out great at the end.



Most origami fold requires no glue, but for this simple star fold, we need a little dab of glue to join the eight-folded pieces together to make a complete star.







Hope to see you all again in December. Happy Thanksgiving!