balls

origami never ceases to amaze me and the ability of japanese children to remember and nail origami is a wonder to watch. I now teach, part time, at a primary school in the bronx of osaka. today, after they'd been swimming on the roof, the kids taught me how to make a fully inflated ball out of paper. fantastic. if you've got time and haven't made origami for a while, I recommend finding a square bit of paper and follow these instructions. very theraputic................

1) first fold the paper in half. then fold it in half again.
2) from the centre, fold in two triangles like in picture 1 below:

3) then invert these triangles so they point inside.
4) this should form a new triangle with 4 flaps like this picture:

5) now bring the pointy bits up to the centre and fold on both sides:

6) bring the 4 points you just folded from in, to touch the centre line:

7) now pull the flaps up and tuck them in like this:

8) blow into the hole at one end and daanaa. a baw.