Numbers, Rhymes and Symmetry

Part of my spring season has been in-person teaching in the classroom, working with students Pre-K through 7th grades, inclusive, which translates to mean projects for nine different ages levels. I'm thinking that I'd like to write about them, one at a time, hoping to give you access to enough info to try them out…

Revisiting!

Practicing Adobe Illustrator skills, finally figuring out the distribute tool Much of my focus over the last few months has been on happily revisiting projects, skills, and ideas that I didn't have enough time to dig into more deeply in the past. Oh, and just about everything I've done falls into that category. Sometimes I…

Zhen Xian Bao: a Modest History

Last week I received an email from someone who is interested in the history of the Chinese folk art commonly referred to as Zhen Xian Bao. The writer wanted to know more about the history of the form before diving into a hands-on learning journey. This is also how I began when learning about Zhen…

Paper Toy: a Foldable Structure

In 2016 I wrote a post about an ingenious structure I had come across while browsing through patents in the late 1980's. This past week I received a question about how to attach the sections of the structure together. Although I was able to locate the piece from the 2016 post, I thought it might be…