Benefits of origami for children.
What are origamis?
Meaning of the word: ORIGAMI. "ORI" (#doblar), "GAMI" (#Paper).
Some school teachers have begun to work on making origami in schools. Performing this activity with children brings the following benefits:
✤ Stimulates the development of their motor skills: By folding the sheet to create different figures, the child is working his fine motor skills, which allows him to have a good handling of it.
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✤ The spatial capacity of children is developed: This capacity allows the child to visualize objects from different angles.
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✤ Exercise the concentration and attention: Children to perform these activities, must put all your attention to achieve the desired figure.
✤ Develop creativity and love for the arts.
✤ Motivates the child to new developments and figures, which generates personal satisfaction improving their self-esteem.
✤ It is very beneficial for children because it allows them to have pleasant and fun times.
Origami allows us to create fun crafts with sheets of paper: as boats, animals, animals, houses, cars, etc. On the internet you can get many images that explain step by step how to make these different figures.
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Origami and its relation to mathematics:
Origami has a close relationship with mathematics because performing each doubles requires an exact precision where you should apply a bit of: geometry, angles and lines that is what will allow you to create beautiful and interesting figures. The different origamis models are created through geometric shapes that give form to a great variety of models, this is called "bases". The best known models are developed from four bases, developed by the Japanese, they are:
- the kite, the fish, the bird and the frog. Some people use the paper wetting technique, to give more mobility and handling to the sheet of paper.
Origami also provides benefits in physical and mental health Create different figures with sheets of paper is all art, which requires hands and imagination, to put to work the brain, body and spirit. It is said that people who practice this activity maintain an excellent state in their memory and feel full, full of tranquility and peace, allowing them to be calm and sensitive people. Working with origami activates the right hemisphere of the brain that is the part responsible for the artistic and creative sense of the person.
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And it de-stresses them, when my son was 10 years old he began to make origami figures, and now he is 20 years old, he practices it when he is stressed or discouraged.