Our Workshops: Learning “Origami”

On February 21 as a part of the Good Cause Every Day! promo event the representatives of Konstantin Kondakov’s Charity Foundation conducted origami workshops for the students of Sanatorium boarding school № 19 where children with spinal curvature study. On February 22 the children from Sviatoshinsky orphanage made amusing paper figures, and on February 26 – the students of Special boarding school № 11 for visually impaired children with profound study of artistic and aesthetic cycle did the same. How was it all happening?

After a brief description of the Japanese art history the organizers gave the children coloured paper, and a magical act of turning ordinary paper into beautiful figures began: they made original hearts, funny little green frogs, graceful swans, etc. Each participant wanted to show all their creative and artistic skills, and everyone did it pretty well.

Konstantin Kondakov Charity Foundation pays special attention to the wide spreading of children’s origami, because this art is a unique way for children to develop spatial and logical thinking, to stimulate their creativity and the desire to invent. This is especially relevant for children with special needs.

The evening ended with traditional Japanese tea. The children received memorable gifts from the Foundation: cognitive, developmental board games and books detailing the process of creating origami – from simple to incredibly complex figures.

Making children part of traditional folk arts, believe members of the Foundation, instills in the rising generation insistent demand for creativity. The Foundation intends to keep promoting the art of origami in our country to encourage children to enquire useful skills, because with love in our hearts we are creating a new world!