My ten-year-old son loves origami — don’t most kids? He’s made hundreds of paper airplanes, perfecting his technique to figure out which ones fly best.
His next favorite thing to fold from paper is a cicada. I find these all over his room, made from every kind of paper imaginable. He really loves making these things. They look good if the paper is different colors on both sides, like origami paper. But newspapers work fine too.
I found a video showing how to make them, and found her hands easy to follow along. Origami is something fun to do together with your kids when it’s cold outside. It’s cheap too — that’s important! And when you’re done, you can throw everything away without adding to piles of clutter in your house (if you have that problem too.)
This colorful site also has nice diagrams of how to make a paper ship, rabbit, frog, and other animals.
