Accordion Books

Folding Together

The twelve weeks of Saturday zoom folding are evolving. This has been a fun experiment for me, to get together for just thirty minutes once a week to go over some basic paper folding skills. People are showing up, and I get feedback that they are picking up and sharpening their skills. This Saturday will… Continue reading Folding Together

Working with Paper

Accordions in the Air?

Linked French Fold Accordions, with spirits Looks like my new favorite thing is 4 pm on Saturdays. It feels like such a relief to be doing these open, half hour folding sessions which I wrote about doing a few weeks ago. I had decided not to teach this fall because I thought I needed a… Continue reading Accordions in the Air?

Art and Math · Art with Math Supplies · geometry and paper

A Spiraling Book

  I put these photos, and a video, together for a math teacher friend, Lana, a couple of years ago, and thought I had made a post about it. Lana reported back that she had made it will kids, and that they had enjoyed it. I've been posting projects, weekdays, on twitter, from my blog.… Continue reading A Spiraling Book

Arts in Education · Beads on Books · math · Working with Paper

Loose Ends

    Last week I worked on organizing my desks and workspace. This week I've been trying to clear ideas out of my thoughts by getting out the things I've been thinking about. Writing posts and making videos are like my pensieve in the Harry Potter movies. So today I did a video dump. Three… Continue reading Loose Ends