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making a collage

Making a collage is no more difficult than folding the individual pieces. You can put as much or as little time into it as you like. The simplest collages are just origami glued to a paper backing. At the other end of the scale are pictures made up of dozens of tiny pieces filled out with paint and paper cutout details. Or you can take the middle road: a simple paper background with just enough origami pieces to make up a nice composition.

You’ll want to do a bit of thinking before you start cutting and pasting. For example, you’ll want to have a theme. Birds, fishes, a garden, a zoo, dinosaurs—anything goes! Without a theme, your collage will probably just look like a bunch of origami stuck on a poster, though even that could turn out fine.

Think about the relative size of the pieces. Do they look like they belong together? Use different sizes of paper to get them right, or use large and small pieces to give your picture depth. The style and level of detail should be about the same too. And how about color? Care with color choices can give you a really striking result.

The next step is to make a rough layout. This gives you an idea of how the final collage will look, and also how many of each piece you will need to fold.

For the large collages in this kit, I started out with simple sketches, and then expanded them onto large sheets of old wrapping paper. I cut those out and traced around them on colored construction paper to make the parts. Once the parts were cut out, all that remained was to paste them together on a large background sheet. My kids, on the other hand, just draw the background on the paper, sometimes before gluing on the origami, and sometimes after.