Craftiness is Next to Godliness: Butterflies for Charity (+ bonus idea)
When you were little, did you ever read that book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes? So sad/touching! When I found out about the Butterfly Project earlier this week, I immediately thought of the book and of origami.
What’s the Butterfly Project? The Holocaust Museum in Houston is collecting 1.5 million butterflies between now and June 30, 2011. One for each of the children that died in the Holocaust. It’s sort of a downer, I know, but imagine how cool it will look when all 1.5 million are displayed in the museum.
You can make any type of butterfly you like as long as it’s no bigger than 8″ x 10″ and they prefer 2-D submissions, but any medium is fine as long as it doesn’t involve glitter. When you’re finished with your butterflies, send them to the museum and they’ll be displayed. Check the website for complete shipping details.
To all you aspiring artists out there, it’ll be pretty cool to say your work was in a museum!
Create whatever butterflies you like, but I’m already working on a bunch of origami ones. Learn how to fold butterflies here.
Also, while we’re on the topic of origami, I found a really cool centerpiece. Normally, Rachael Rae makes me want to rip my hair out, but sometimes even she has good ideas. This is one of them. She says it’s good for kids, but I say I’d want it at my dinner party, too! Learn how to make a paper airplane centerpiece here. Her instructions are literally a paragraph long, so it’s super easy.
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August 30th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
I’m trying to emulate the feeling I would feel seeing the finished project.
July 1st, 2010 at 4:05 am
http://www.bouncemag.com/2008/03/05/who-plays-94-x-50-d-austrie-lindsey-robinson/