Sarah Todoran

Maker’s Week – Through a Social Science Lens

1- Activity chosen: making of origamis (specifically flowers and butterflies)

2- ***While documenting this process of making an origami butterfly, I must say the criteria to take a
picture of each steps with my face included slipped through my mind. Although if it can help and as
pathetic it can be, I have recognizable nails through the whole step by step crafting and in the picture
of the end result with myself included aswell. I guess this could be proof I did infact make this butterfly,
take it as you may. (It was quite an experience).
Picture of us:

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a) I choose to make origamis as my activity (flowers and butterflies) on Tuesday around the time we
got dissmissed to go and participate in the activities. I did these craft with Sophia, Emily and other
people from our class aswell. It was fun to engage in an activity other than school work.

b) In order to practice origami, you had to watch a tutorial while following the instructions at the same
time. It was the easier option between a video tutorial and a visual on-paper step by step one. In brief,
you had to replicate every fold shown in the tutorial on a square piece of paper. The end result should
be a 3D like shaped in the pattern you had to chose from in the beggining.

c) I learned origami takes alot of patience and detail attention to get every step right. It takes alot of
precision aswell to not wringle the paper too much. Iv’e also learned my dixterity isn’t as good as I
thought, because I quite struggled with smaller pieces such as lily pads.

d) first question: How does origami develop creativity and your fine dixterity over time?

Second question: How does Maker’s week help students find perhaps new interests linked with
substainbility and art ?