3-D town

This was a very simple project to explain.  Everyone was supposed to use either the cool colors or the warm colors and create a scene or town.  We were then instructed on how to make spirals, stairs, and tunnels and given free rein to employ them in any way we could think of.  I had the idea of creating a "main street".  Starting on the far side of the picture is the "Welcome to The Town of Dreams" sign and arched entrance.  The orange twist on the ground is the street and the origami shapes on each side were my "houses."  Each house has an unusual way to climb the "stairs" to the front door.  The easiest to see in this picture is the fish with a spiral stairway and the boat has a fireman's pole to gain entrance.

The teachers of this project read "Oh the Places You Will Go" by Dr. Seuss to the class and encouraged great creativity in our projects.  With an older group you could study the physics of roller-coasters and the students could create amusement parks.  As I did you could learn origami and focus on the history of this paper art.  The students could be encouraged to each find their own book to make a scene from as a literature project.