Do you have a lot of unnecessary paper stickers piled up? Use them for their intended purpose! Make origami figures and decorate your workplace.
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How to Make Origami: My Cheating Heart
(DESIGNED RY OLIVER ZACHARY)
My Cheating Heart is not named for the
song or its appropriateness to any romantic situation, but for the small cut thet makes design possible. Te many paperfolders cutting into origami designs is a form of cheating, but to others it is an integral part of paperfolding techniques. Many trafitional Japanese designs rely on cuts for their effect. When My Cheating Heart is finished you can use the exposed part of the adhesive strip on the back to attach it to any suitable flat surface. You could even attach it to a larger sticky nate, as a decaration to an existing message. This is an obvious choice for Valentine’s Day.
How to Make Origami: Alien
(DESIGNED BY DAVID MITCHELL)
Alien is a good example of a design that is quickly established by a few accurately located folds, then polished up by a series of finishing folds that can be varied to taste. By step 10 all the elements of the design are in place, the rest is just rounding off and finishing.
The folding sequence also provides a “surprise” finish, since the shaping folds are perforned with the face hidden from view. The face is only rovecled once the design is turned over. Because of this element of surprise the Alien con be used as a simple performance piece.
Tell no one what it is you are folding. Deliberately dishact them from seeing the beginnings of the face al sep 11 (perhaps by holding it sideways
or upside down in relation to the audience), and then, voila, the Alien is revealed!
How to Make Origami: Shooting Stars
(DESIGNED BY DAVID MITCHELL)
Shooting Stars are multi-piece designs made by integrating several folded units into starlike forms. This kind of origami is known as modular arigami and is becoming increasingly popular with paperfolding enthusiasts throughout the world. In normal modular origami the separate parts of the final design are combined without the use of glue.
But as sticky notes already come with builtin odhesive strips, you aren’t, lechnically, cheotingl The Single Shooling Star is made from four modules. It makes an attractive decoration but will also fly if thrown from the hand with a Hicking motion. Just be careful where you aim it as its edges can be quite sharp. The Double Shooting Star is made by altering the angle at which the modules are attoched to each other from 90 to 45 degrees. As a result the number of modules required for the design doubles to eight.
How to Make Origami: Plane
(DESIGNED BY DAVID MITCHELL)
The traditional poper dart is one of the most enduring of all origami designs. Every schoolchild knows it. But where did it come from? Who first folded it, and when? Does it predate the invention of real aircraft, or was it designed afterward? We simply do not know. The traditional dart has wings but no tail. This Plane, however, has both, which gives it added stability for a straight, stal-free flight. Launched in the same way as the fraditional paper dart, the Plane will fly remarkably well.
How to Make Origami: Flapping Bird
(TRADITIONALDESIGN ADAPTED FOR STICKY NOTES BY DAVID MITCHELL)
Many paperfolders believe that the traditional Flapping Bird is one of the finest (if not the finest) origami designs. The design itself, however, is something of a mystery, While it is often known as the Japanese Flapping Bird the design was, until quite recently, little known in Japan. On the other hand, it is cleatly a development of the traditional crane, which is indisputably Japanese in origin.
Wherever it came from, and whenever that was, whoever designed it has bequeathed the paperfolding community a design to treasure. The Flapping Bird is folded from a compound square derived from two rectangular sticky notes. The method by which the compound square is created is given in the diagrams. The compound square is not of even thickness (some parts are two layers thick) but you will find that this does not affect the folding procedure. This technique will also allow you to fold many other arigami designs using sticky notes.
