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Origami Mobile

Origami to liven up your room-or give as presents.

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/origami-mobile-3 • Posted by Conn

This was my gift to my high school math teacher. I'd been with him for three years--the first in Advanced Algebra, the second as his teacher's assistant, and the final year in his AP Statistics course--and on top of that, he had written quite a few letters of recommendations for me. He's always commenting on my paper creations so I decided to make him a mobile-an origami mobile, to be exact. First I made the origami kusudama and cubes. Then, before closing off each one, I inserted a bead attached to a string into the origami ball or cube so that I could hang the model onto the mobile. I cut up a clothes hanger and used pliers to roll each end into a loop on which I hung the origami. Then I connected all the pieces of clothes hanger together to form the lovely mobile that greets your eyes above. ^^

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Project Budget
Almost Nothing

Time

3 h 00

Difficulty

Nice & Simple
Medium 102011 2f2014 05 23 023435 dscn1213 Medium 102011 2f2014 05 23 023442 dscn1214

Description

This was my gift to my high school math teacher. I'd been with him for three years--the first in Advanced Algebra, the second as his teacher's assistant, and the final year in his AP Statistics course--and on top of that, he had written quite a few letters of recommendations for me. He's always commenting on my paper creations so I decided to make him a mobile-an origami mobile, to be exact. First I made the origami kusudama and cubes. Then, before closing off each one, I inserted a bead attached to a string into the origami ball or cube so that I could hang the model onto the mobile. I cut up a clothes hanger and used pliers to roll each end into a loop on which I hung the origami. Then I connected all the pieces of clothes hanger together to form the lovely mobile that greets your eyes above. ^^

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