Students' Explorations

The following examples were all made by middle school students during the pandemic - yup, we did this online together! The mages were taken by the students themselves using a variety of tools available to them during remote learning and shared. Materials consisted of 9” uncoated single-ply paper plates (or any sized circles traced from a round object on a piece of paper), paper creaser (a straight edge for creasing the folds), 1/2' masking tape, and bobby pins. I use these materials for my explorations and sometimes my finished pieces. Please check out the Students' Gallery for additional unique explorations of these forms.

VE Sphere

4 circles folded with 3 diameters each

Open Icosahedron

4 circles folded each with the "tetrahedron net"

Stellated Icosahedron

VE sphere using torn circles after folding paper in thirds

Tetrahedron net exploration

Staggered tetrahedrons

Octohedron using two circles. When students came together in the spring they made hula hoops and added designs using spiraling colored tape .

Stellated Octahedron

Partially stellated open-icosahedron

Moveable Cube: one tetrahedron and 3 right angled tetrahedrons connected with tape hinges that allow for movement into into a cube

Moveable Cube at rest

Decorated Tetrahedron

8-frequency folded circle grid with design using colored pencils

Group Project - connecting open right-angled tetrahedrons

Torus Ring using 4 circles folded into open right angled tetrahedrons for project titled "Where Are You From?

Torus ring using 8 tetrahedrons hinged together

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