In her workshop, Chris taught us about the art of kiragami, which is similar to origami only in that it involves using paper to create sculptures.  It seems to me that the biggest difference in Kiragami is that you can cut the paper and so it seems like a more open-ended process.  I do remember making paper snowflakes in school to decorate for the winter, and that seems like a great activity for very young children who are developing fine motor control and learning to cut with scissors.

The more complex projects and ideas that Chris showed us could be great for teaching any age.  I feel like Kiragami can scale to any age, just by adjusting the difficulty.  I think that with High School students it could be related to book making and it would be a great complement to the processes that Brianna showed us in her workshop.  Students could learn the basics and then experiment with creating their own forms.  For High School age kids, I think I would give them a structure for creating their own designs by using a system of grids on the back of the paper.  I experimented with creating my own pattern in the last piece I made this morning.

Here are pictures:

I will definitely put this last piece about fractals into my toolkit for teaching at the High School level.