Origami: Senba Zuru Final Evaluation

Last week I have finished making senba zuru. Instead of putting 100 cranes together, I’ve made 4 sets of 25 cranes.

This little project was indeed a challenge to me because I’m not particularly good at something that requires a lot of precision and concentration to make it. However,  throughout the time I realized that I’m improving in this skill of making cranes with more efficiency. This is evident from the fact that I can now make a crane in about 3 minutes which is a lot shorter than the time it took me to make one at the very beginning, which was about 5 minutes. Through this experience, I was also able to grow and expand my strength and see myself with more skills and abilities. I’ve shown a perseverance and commitment in this project as I consistently made about 4-5 cranes everyday regardless of the schedule. This also gave me a moment of relaxation from the school work. 
The only goal I was unable to achieve was to make a video of how to make Senba Zuru and upload it to Youtube. This was because I couldn’t find time to take videos and put them together due to the tight academic work. However, if I ever have an opportunity to do this again, I hope to make a video! 

Overall, making Senba Zuru was an exciting experience through which I was able to develop new skills and challenge myself to something completely new. I hope that the skills I’ve developed through this creativity will come to be useful at some point in the future.

Origami: Senba Zuru Update 2

I have been making about 4-5 cranes everyday consistently for about 2 weeks, and today I have reached 50 out of the 100. If I continue at this rate, I should be able to make 100 in about 2 weeks’ time.

For the last 2 weeks, I have been consistently making them everyday, and I feel that this takes a lot of perseverance and commitment.  This has really taught me about the challenges that arise when continuing everyday, such as making cranes even though there are academic work and other important priorities. However, at the same time when I’m making cranes I feel relaxed and thus I believe that this gives me an opportunity to have a balance between relaxation and studies, which is an integral part of IB.

I feel that I’ve been improving my skills to make cranes. One of the evidences is shown in the time it takes to make one. At the beginning, it took me about 5-6 minutes to make one crane, but now I can make one in about 3-4 (sometimes 5) minutes. This is certainly a proof that I’m getting better at this, and thus I’ve increased an awareness of my increasing strength. I hope that this continues to improve as I make more and more. 

Origami: Senba Zuru Update 1

I bought the folding papers a few days back, and now I’m ready to start this Creativity. To start off with, I’ve cut a paper into 4 pieces of the same size (all squares).  I’ve cut 25 papers in total, so now I have 100 papers, which is the number of papers I need for this purpose. From now on, I hope to start folding cranes little by little, and hopefully make 100 cranes by the beginning of March.

Origami: Senba Zuru

Origami is a traditional Japanese art of paper folding. As part of my Creativity, I have decided to do Origami as to pursue my commitment to learning a new form of art. There are many different things that can be folded out of just a piece of paper, such as boats, planes, animals, etc, and for this purpose, I have decided to focus on Senba Zuru, which means thousand origami cranes. It is basically one thousand origami paper cranes held together by strings. An ancient Japanese legend says that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. Thus I have decided to wish for a successful IB grades. However, due to the limited time available, I have modified the custom to one hundred, instead of one thousand.

As to make this more significant to others, my plan is, at the end of this, create a video showing how to create a paper crane and senba zuru, and upload to Youtube, so that other people can watch and learn how to create it. I hope to be able to have the video uploaded by the end of March.

The goals I’ve set are:

• To undertake the new challenge of creating senba zuru
• To show perseverance and commitment by spending about 30 minutes everyday making cranes
• To develop the skill of origami
• To make hundred senba zuru, which will be put together by a string
• To make a video and upload it to Youtube

Senba zuru

Paper cranes