Paper folding and other fun things

This week at Pathfinders we started the Origami and Braiding (making lanyards and other crafts) honors.  I am assisting some of the other leaders in these two honors and will be teaching some of the honors to come.  This week and next week will be devoted to origami and braiding and the following weeks before Christmas will start a brand new set of honors.  We are due for a staff meeting soon where we will discuss upcoming honors and the upcoming inspection. We opened up with devotion, then the kids practiced their marching and then went straight to their honors.  The older kids took part in the braiding honor and the younger kids took the origami honor.

In Origami, the kids learned the basic folds (kite, fish, waterbomb, valley, and mountain folds) and then they learned how to make a paper boat and a paper balloon.  The paper balloon is really cool because you can actually blow up the ball so that it looks inflated.  Sounds impossible but it was fun and the kids seemed to enjoy that a lot.  Overall this was an eventful and fun night for all of the Pathfinders and we are all looking forward to many more.  Here they are, as promised, a few of the pictures that were taken from this week's meeting.  There are a few of the group marching as well.

In Braiding, the older kids learned how to do various braiding patterns to make lanyards and other types of keychains.  I was not as involved with helping at the braiding honor, but I did help out with origami.


In other news, school is continuing to go well. There are many things that are due within the next few weeks but otherwise everything is well.  Looking forward to the holidays so that I can get back on track and be able to plan a little more for the honors that I will be teaching soon.