December 18

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Christmas is right around the corner, let's see what fun we can get up to:

Can you follow a plan? Let's see. Let's create a Kirigami snowflake project and/or a Christmas Tree origami project.

1. Kirigami  Snowflake Instructions 

 1.Fold a piece of paper in half.

2.Fold in half again but only make a small crease to show the midpoint. Fold the bottom right corner upwards to make a 60° angle at the midpoint (begin to fold into thirds).

3.Fold the bottom left corner upwards to meet with the folded right-edge of the paper.

4.Trim the excess paper to form a cone shape.

5.Make several cuts out of the cone shape and then unfold to discover your paper snowflake. Be careful not to cut too much - that will cause the entire snowflake to fall apart.

 Note that cutting half-a-heart will open to reveal a heart cutout. Similarly, cutting a semicircle will reveal a circle; and cutting a triangle will produced a diamond shape.


2.Christmas Tree Origami

3. Send an e-card:  http://www.care2.com/ecards/ 

Norad Tracks Santa - this is a really nice site with lots of activities for kids: http://www.noradsanta.org ,

The Fun Christmas Site For Kids - lots of possibilities including recipes, crossword puzzles, Christmas hangman, word scrambles and more . . . http://www.topshelfmarketing.com/christmas/ , 

Christmas Printable Worksheets - more anagrams, crosswords, cryptograms, sudoku, http://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/worksheets.htm 

I think this will keep you busy for a while.  

Happy holidays one and all.  See you in 2013!!!!