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DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Simple Origami Lamb

This is extremely basic origami meant for ages 4 thru 7.  

It teaches them a few of the basic folds but lets them create a project in less than 10 steps.

Materials:

bulletsquare piece of white paper (cut a piece of computer paper to make a square
bulletOPTIONAL:  black marker
bulletOPTIONAL:  wiggly eyes and glue
bulletOPTIONAL:  2 cotton balls and glue

 

TERMINOLOGY -- MOUNTAIN FOLD: 

fold the paper under -- see how it looks like a mountain?

TERMINOLOGY -- VALLEY FOLD:

fold the paper to the front

 

Instructions:

bulletto make a square piece of paper, valley fold diagonally and cut off the excess
bulletvalley fold the paper in half diagonally  (so you have a triangle)
bulletturn the triangle so the point is facing toward you.
  
bulletvalley fold the paper in half diagonally again (so you have a smaller triangle).  
bulletcrease and unfold
  
bulletthis gives you a crease in the center of your larger triangle to use as a guide for the next step
bulleton each side, valley fold a triangle about 3/4 of the way to the crease to make the ears
bulletthis is what you end up with
bulletmountain fold a small bit of the bottom tip of the triangle
bulletmountain fold a small bit of each ear
OPTIONAL:  
  
bulletglue pieces of cotton balls onto the ears.
  
bulletglue wiggly eyes onto the face
  
bulletdraw a black nose (and eyes) onto the face.
 

Printable version of these instructions