Chinese New Year Origami Year of the Sheep class project

A sleeping sheep dreams atop a pile of rocks and is covered in a grass-print blanket and pillow

A close-up view of the Zodiac Green Sheep and the sweaters he is dreaming of which spin around when touched!

A top view of the entire project with clouds set above the sweaters with spacers.

This week's Origami project: Chinese New Year Zodiac animal, the green sheep! The sheep rests atop a pile of rocks and covers himself inside a grass-print sleeping bag and matching pillow case. The rocks and grass are my own photographs which I used to make signature paper patterns for this project. The sheep is dreaming of sweaters floating by beneath the cloud-covered skies. The sweaters are adhered to a paper plate which can be spun around to add a fun action-oriented aspect to the project. The Origami models are my own designs.

Origami monkeys have gone bananas!

This week's Origami project includes a few monkeys in a banana tree and they have definitely gone bananas! The monkey model is my own design and I took a diamond base and turned it into banana leaves by adding a few leaf markings. The kids really have enjoyed this project, especially all of the monkeying around!

Magnificent Magnolias in bloom!

This week's Origami class project: rainforest frogs enjoying a bromeliad plant!

My design of a modular Origami bromeliad plant

Photographs of some incredible plants at San Francisco Botanical Garden

Say "hello" to my little friend!

This is me, the Origami Mami, at one of my Origami classes where I thought it would be fun to make a life-sized Parrot sitting on my shoulder. So, I did just that and taped the back wing tips to my shoulder and there he sat, perched atop my shoulder for the entire class! My students named him "Pepper"!

Origami Parrot Earrings from this week's project!

These are a couple of images of my Origami Parrots from this week's Origami class project. I resized an image I took of the parrots and printed them onto ink jet Grafix shrink film paper. I cut out the images and baked them in the oven as directed, punched holes into the top of the parrots and voila! Original, Origami parrot earrings!