Paper Folding on Pitara Kids Network

Twinkling Stars

Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:40:05 +0000

Twinkling Stars [Illustrations by Anup Singh]

All you need is:

Square piece of paper.
Colours.

Fold the paper as shown in each of the figures below.

Make three triangles in the same way. Now interlock two of them as shown below. Paste the third triangle to the interlocked triangles.

Your star is ready to be coloured. Make as many stars as you want and let them spangle your room.

Origamist Whizkid Sivaram

Mon, 09 Sep 2002 15:55:11 +0000

October 21: Imagine the talent required to fold a single sheet of paper as many as 100 times, to create fantastic animals, birds, insects, celebrities, aircraft and gods! Actually this is an intricate art dating back to1000 A.D. Japan, where it was pioneered, and is called Origami.

And 12-year-old origamist Sivaram Narayanan, is a whiz at it, as visitors during his recent “one man” exhibition at the Lalit Kala gallery, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, says a report in the Chennai edition of ‘The Hindu’. As many as 300 of his works were shown.