> On Aug 31, 2017, at 9:23 PM, Lisa Corfman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Folders! > > I am excited to be starting an after school job entertaining kindergarten > through 3rd graders. I get to run an activity daily with the kids. My > question is, can I teach origami and whose models can I teach? I am not > getting paid to teach the kids origami, I am just making sure they are safe > and have a good afternoon. I do want to inspire a love of origami in the > kids. Any suggestions? > > Thanks! > > Lisa
Hi Lisa, I think your safest bet is to teach traditional origami, or origami for which the creator has freely distributed diagrams. By traditional origami, I mean models the author of which is unknown and which have been around “forever." A good source for traditional origami is John Montroll’s book “Fun and Simple Origami.” It has some models of his own design, but most of the 101 models are traditional, and hence public domain (not the diagrams, but you can teach the models without distributing diagrams). For free diagrams on the internet, there are many resources, but http://www.origami-resource-center.com/ <http://www.origami-resource-center.com/> is a good place to start. I’m sure others will chime in with plenty more suggestions… Have fun! Matthew
