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This year, I was blessed with the opportunity to teach geometric solids for 2^nd grade children at the same school my daughter studies.

They are about forty 7/8yo children that surprise each time I was among them! I encouraged them to watch some buildings on the streets so they could design and assemble a city with paper models using only the solids we’ve learned together – spheres, cones, prisms, pyramids, cylinders, rectangular solids, and cubes.

This small city they created was exhibited at the school’s Science Fair and it was used as part of a lighting pollution experiment. In order to make me completely happy, the school invited me to exhibit all my paper models and to provide a paper model workshop at the Fair.

Feedback was beyond my best expectations.

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David Webber, the Community Manager of the Universal Record Database (URDB.org), told me about this website and some amazing records they have there.

You’ll get a greater sense if you check out the site, but they gathered a few papercraft related records. Here are a few highlights:

• Largest Origami Cube
• Widest Duct Tape Flower
• Shortest Greeting Card Collection
• Most Paper Airplanes Stuck In Hair At Once
• Most Paper Airplanes Constructed And Flown In One Minute
• Slowest Time For Cardboard Box Parachute To Descend 15 Feet

So what? Can you beat them???

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Foldplay.com lets you put four of your own photos onto a 3D moving paper sculpture known as a kaleidocycle.

Just upload your photos, or select some of them. They’ll slice, dice and stretch them onto a triangular grid. Print it out, score, cut, fold, and glue. They have a slideshow with complete directions. Presto! You have a personalized 3D paper sculpture with your smiling face turning around and around.

They’re easy to make if you have some experience with paper models.