Crafts: Origami
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How To Make A Simple Toile Origami Pear Centerpiece
Make a simple origami pears centerpiece using toile paper, for amazing and elegant results.
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How To Make Elegant Paper Leaves For Crafting
These elegant DIY paper leaves for crafting are so simple to make and with amazing results. Use them together with paper fruit or flowers, or even on their own! While metallic paper looks elegant, you might choose to use green paper of some kind, recycled magazine pages or go with a color and use these…
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How To Make Gold Leaf Origami Dreidels
Chanukah is coming on Sunday night, so now is the time to whip up some quick decorations, that while made from paper can be elegant and festive! I previously shared my origami toile dreidels made from toile scrapbook paper, and now I share with you how to make gold leaf origami dreidels, which are equally…
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How To Make Elegant Toile Origami Dreidels For Chanukah
Guess what friends, origami dreidels can now be elegant, or vintage or cottage core, when you choose to fold them from the scrapbook paper that matches your decor, or you wish matched your decor! When I realized the secret to how to make elegant toile origami dreidels for Chanukah I was ecstatic, as bright colors…
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How To Make Layered Origami Dreidels
Origami dreidels are quickly becoming an all-time favorite Chanukah craft, but what to do with them you might ask? Well friends, here is one fabulous idea to take your origami dreidels to the next level, and that is dimensional origami dreidels, meaning gradated sizes attached to one another such that the layers looks like they…
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How To Make Origami Dreidels For Chanukah Crafting
If you’ve been following my crafting adventures over the years, you’ll surely recognize the fact that I love origami, so writing once again about how to make origami dreidels for your chanukah crafting just comes oh so naturally! And of course I’ve just finished teaching my 3rd and 4th grade students how to fold these,…
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How To Make A 2 Minute Origami Butterfly
While our Women's Purim party is coming up in a few days and I could pull my boxes of origami butterflies down from the attic, instead I'm coming up with something new, and sharing the past with you here! Purim is the next Jewish holiday on the calendar, and a festive one at that, so…
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Origami Clowns Craft To Make In Many Sizes
These origami clowns are just too much fun, and since they are quite simple to fold, why not make a bunch in many sizes to decorate for Purim? Garlands, cake toppers, vase inserts and even front door decor are perfect ideas for how to use this clown, or how about glued to card stock as…
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A Bowl Of Origami Pears For Tu B’Shevat!
Tonight is the festive holiday of Tu B'Shevat, the New Year for Fruit Bearing Trees, and there is still a tiny bit of time to make a fun centerpiece, especially something quick ilke this bowl of origami pears! While this year I've gone crazy making origami fruit of all kinds in great numbers and with…
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Simple Origami Pears Craft For Tu B’Shevat
The festive Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shevat, The Jewish New Year for Fruit Bearing Trees, is coming up on Wednesday night, so now is THE time to get crafting! And while you might like to fill up your table with a vast array of wonderful fruits and nuts to honor the holiday, why not make…
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Origami Cherries And Strawberries For Tu B’Shevat!
This craft is just so adorable and so very simple! I've been making these cherries with my crafting students and even children as young as 7 or 8 can easily fold the origami balloon that is needed. And while we've used the idea to make cherries here, you can make just about any fruit using…
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Origami Stars And Dreidels Chanukah Garland Craft
I'm so very proud of this ten year old student of mine, who came up with his own great ideas for how to decorate the origami Jewish stars and origami dreidels that we made over the course of a few weeks in the after schooling crafting studio I've been running. While the origami dreidel is…