 I've come up with over 100 different books that you can make just from paper and a pair of scissors and we're going to make three this afternoon. So would you take one of the sheets of paper that you've got in front of you please and have that in front of us in the landscape position. We're going to fold this down to eight rectangles. I call this the magic eight rectangles because most of those hundred books you make different ways of folding and cutting these eight rectangles. Let's fold this sheet in half vertically please like this. Now I'm going to demonstrate it holding it up like this as you will do with your class but when we come to folding it we need to do that on the table top in front of us get a nice sharp crease and then to use the scissor handle to sharpen that crease please. We now then have an A5 landscape in front of us and we're going to fold that in half as well. So making the corners carefully touch on the table top folding down the crease sharpening the crease and making sure we lay the scissors down the point is facing away from us. We turn up and what does like the birthday card and we're going to fold the top edge down to the bottom edge there like this lay that down on the table top fold the crease sharpen the crease with this as a handle we've got this and then we've got when we open the sheet the magic eight rectangles. The first book I'm going to make a deal I call an origami book although really it's not an origami book at all. So to do this we want to fold the paper in half the first crease you made and I would say to the class rub your finger on the folded edge so we know where the folded edge is this is the open bit here I know that's actually the obvious but you well know you've got to teach these skills this is the folded edge we're going to lay the folded edge against our tummy so the folded edge against my tummy here and I'm going to lay the scissors on that middle crease folded edge middle crease and then we're going to cut to the middle horizontal crease there you must go right to that horizontal point there then open the whole sheet hold the top half over the bottom half and then automatically we should find a cube forming when we start to push the left and the right side that doesn't happen just turn the whole thing around the other way and you'll find it will actually go to a cube now I'm going to push the cube to a star shape there or cross and then I'm going to just fold down those pages and we have the six pages of the little origami book here it is at year two by Lisa it's Lisa's best friend she's done a different friend you see on each of the pages there this has then been opened to A3 it's been laid on a skull photocopier it's been reduced down and so here we have an A4 edition of the book now this is the only kind of thing you can do from single sheets of paper you can't do this with an exercise book so here we have then Lisa's original and her little then edition of one let's bring that down to year one half the size of that one is this little book of shapes look at these beautiful little shapes all all title hexagons triangles and so on there we come back to a A3 size and we have pasto highlights of a summer holiday and just look at the shared joy of this I mean the decorative border the way the writing has been arranged with the illustrations a real I mean this is a real visual experience and you can sense the child's enthusiasm for making that year six we have a little book about butterflies so the top half the page is writing about that particular species and then the illustrations underneath and then finally I'm going to show you I love this one it's called Journeys it's by Sarah she was 10 when she made this and this is an A2 sheet of paper folded down to those same rectangles to make the origami book and just let me turn the pages so you can see oh she must have loved this now she's got the original everything I'm showing you is absolutely photocopies because I cannot prize these books out of children and naturally enough the second book that we're going to make could you take another sheet of A4 please and we're going to make the magic eight rectangles so would you fold in half move that first crease the first photocopies like this we don't fold it in half holding it up we let on the table top we take this as a handle and we sharpen the crease and then we hold it again to the new landscape A5 we fold that vertically in half again we do the corner to corner touching folding the halfway sharpen the crease with the handle of the scissors and we have like a little birthday card there and then we fold the top down to the bottom so we've got our magic eight rectangles we open the whole sheet and we have it in a vertical position we're going to cut three of the middle the middle crease cut three of those panels so I'm going to go one and two and three now of course many children will cut right the way through so have some masking tape ready just to join the final top one together we're going to fold the final crease in half now what just happened is that there's a flap on the left and a flap on the right they should start to make zigzags you said I can let a W be if it doesn't actually do that just turn the whole of this inside out and you'll find it will more easily go to a zigzag on on that side there's the W there and then on the other side likewise we fold that to a zigzag so we have a zigzag left and a zigzag right and when we hold it do you see it looks like a like a frog and I say this Jordan hold up your dancing frog that's the pages of the book we lay that on one side we take another sheet of paper to make the covers this one starts by folding the paper in half the long way folding in half the long way horn at the corner carefully touching sharpening the crease with the scissors handle and now we're going to put a spine in the middle of this this cover how are we going to do that without measuring because none of my books have any measuring well we don't like this put our little finger on one edge and then we take the other edge and decrease that over to touching our little finger on the other side so I'm going to do that on the table top so little finger on one side decrease the other side to touching our little finger we then open this back do the same thing around the other way so the little finger now goes on the other edge here and then we crease this far edge over the touch our little finger on the other side piece the paper down and then hey presto wow we've got a spine in the middle of our cover and if you're making a smaller book of course you need less than your little finger if you're say making an a a three size book then you do say your index finger and you use your thumb if you're using a two size paper now the covers are too big so we've got to fold in the left and the right side now we're not going to go right up to the spine crease that makes the covers too small we're going to have the same little finger width before we get to the spine on one side facing that down on the table top facing that in finger little finger width gap between the spine and the edge and then repeat that to the other side creasing over to within a little finger width of the other side there and there we've got our cover finished the last stage is then to fit the dancing from the pages into the cover of the book and what I'm going to do is I'm going to hold the the book with the inside facing upwards I'm going to have the creases and near as to my tummy as I'm going to have the crease on the dancing frog knee nearest to my tummy here and I'm going to put my finger in here open up this little pocket there's a pocket on the side this is the folded intersection opened up and I'm going to put like the foot of the frog in on that side do the same thing to the other side just slot the foot of the frog in and say the other side is there and then it's like I'm going to push mine in there and there into there like this fold it over and then we just push the pages down into the middle head goes down into the folded down book fold it all down and there is our six page book with a detached cover let's have a look at that first of all with mrs. wiggle waggle this is a nine year old story book this is your book you just made but this is on a three size paper beautifully designed look at the sheer kind of professionalism but this work I mean it looks so beautiful isn't illustrations and the writing so holistic and the cover design so beautiful piece of work half that size we come down to a year one book and this is a family portrait so as a member of my family on each of the pages inside there and half that size that's a piece of a five paper folded down we have this little beauty here and look at the difference just using um colored paper can make to the paper there to the presentation book and half it is half a size again here it is done an a six tiny little book here with a one sentence story in there and then I'm going to show it to you it's a long term project year six we're working on a two size paper now and now we're really getting into the heavy stuff now aren't we here this is like a 10 15 hour project three hours a week and we're looking at South America different aspects of South America and even things like drop down pages like this which is a page of crafts of South America this book I've joined two of those dancing frogs together to give extra pages to receive the sheer variety of subject of a duration to period of time you might want to have a little short term book which only lasts for a few minutes you might want to make another project risk it on on for an afternoon or two afternoons or a half a term of mornings the sheer variety of possibilities here are absolutely endless we're going to come on now to our third book and it's going to be a pop-up book so let's take another sheet of a four please and we're going to make the magic eight rectangles so we start by folding in half making sure the corners touch on the table top fold down the crease scissor handle sharpen the crease later scissors down making sure the point is facing away from us we have a new eight a five landscape we fold that in half to making our birthday card corners carefully touch fold down the halfway crease there's our birthday if i had time i'm sure you're a dozen different wonderful approaches to writing a story in just a greeting card but for now we're coming on to our pop-up book so we're going to fold the top edge down to the bottom edge there make the corners carefully touch fold down the halfway sharpen it with our scissor handle and we have the magic eight rectangles so we're going to fold this sheet in half the vertical crease and i'm going to draw on the top panel on the folded side that must be on the forwarder side a rainbow there is my rainbow on the folded edge top panel notice that it doesn't go right up to the vertical crease that would kind of spoil the effect really if it goes right to that point but it must go to the horizontal crease it and i say to the class okay have the rainbow touching your tummy there and now hold your scissors in your hand everybody watching everybody watching you run a classroom have the scissors ready are you already ready now we're going to make the paper view the moving and the scissors stay still there's the scissors and i'm going to make the paper do the moving there and you must cut down to the halfway point we open the whole sheet and we fold the top over the bottom up and children are absolutely astonished when they find they've got a circle in front of them now you could of course do a project solely using this design here so everyone piece of artwork in the middle and on the writing on the sides but we're making this into a pop-up book so i'm going to fold it in half there's the rainbow rising up in the top half of the book form and i'm going to fold it forwards on the horizontal crease now you can't make a pop-up on the horizontal crease it has to be at an angle so look what i'm going to i'm going to slightly crease that down let me repeat that there it is horizontal there it is with the slight crease down there it can be a big crease just a slight one and then i'm going to reverse crease on the other side that would help it pop up reverse decrease on the other side bring that back up vertically again and then i'm going to have to make this this rainbow go inside the the base of the book so i'm just going to slightly close that and i'm going to drop it down into the base of the book here like this you see that starting down angle it's got to be there and when we open it there it is popping up and down and the class will go crazy at this point believe me they're absolutely wild about this but you've got to be careful they don't pull it too hard because they just want to tear the paper i'm going to show you just one example of children's work here and it is a history project year four it's on Tutankhamun there he is popping up up and down the middle of this a three-size book here and then there's writing on the side panels about how it was discovered in the 1920s now for this one i've cut the side panels so they can open so we have extra pages of writing if you need them on the side panels now i'll just very very briefly illustrate that so here we have your hit the book you've made now in the in the front panel it's like a hole in the middle and i'm going to take the scissors and i'm going to cut up the first crease now this is only on the outside edge because if you do that according to both places you're going to cut the whole seat in half cut up here and on the far side there and then i can have two extra pages there for writing if you want them to go there you know i've had a wonderful 30 years of i'm in my 80s now i don't travel around the world anymore i do workshops still in the uk but i mean this the sheer thrill and excitement that i've experienced i'm so lucky it's some sort of life enhancing to what's children produce these books and the excitement and the joy and the thrill of fold fold fold cut cut cut and wham wham wham you get something absolutely wonderful that you come out a little story in there and you can give that to granny when you get home later that evening one thing every child will say to you when they made one of these books my guarantee is when can we take them though thank you