Last year I posted about our favourite homemade Father’s Day gift, an origami shirt and tie garland. The kids loved making it and their Papa loved receiving it. We still admire it on a daily basis and according to my site statistics it’s the one readers come to visit the most (it’s even featured on the Disney blog Spoonful here).
As some of you may know, origami is very popular in this house (post to prove it here). We spend hours folding everything from cranes (once we even folded 1000 for a special friend), balls, mice, pianos and even the odd piece of lingerie. Whenever we have kids over to our house the origami box is usually the first thing that comes out and my kids love passing on their folding skills to others.
Since Mother’s Day is coming up (On May 12th in Italy) I thought it would be a nice idea to make the origami dress version of the shirt and tie garland. My kids learned how to fold this dress a few years ago and we have a house full of them.
For this garland the kids folded tiny versions of the origami dress and then sewed them onto round pieces of paper. The garland can be folded (carefully) up and slipped into an envelope to be opened on Mother’s Day. Very sweet.
The kids also folded some larger dresses and made them into cards. They only glued the top of the dress onto the cardboard which makes the skirt puff out a little. Very pretty. And very quick to do.
Here is a little video of my daughter showing how to fold a paper origami dress. Please ignore the irritating music, I’ll try and find something a little more soothing soon.
Jillian In Italy 