Youth Maker Days - 

Trash to Treasure: Origami and Paper Cutting

This origami and paper-cutting / folding session is based on “Peach blossom”, a story of a Chinese girl who overcomes her family’s poverty with imagination by creating paper art to solve her problems.

Students will choose one of the items in the story to create using a variety of papers that might be tossed or thrown away as well as art paper and other supplies.

Project to go home: A large paper origami or Chinese papercut/folding.

Age Range: 9-13

What to Wear: Clothes that can receive paint