For our last project, I made a stop motion animation with my partner, Karli. We decided to use one of Elliot Eisner’s “10 Lessons the Arts Teach,” using number two for our project: ”The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can
have more than one answer.“1
After some brainstorming, we decided to use origami paper on top of a decorated sheet of paper. The beauty of using origami is that you can make so many different things from a single sheet of paper, and it illustrates our point. Quite simply: what can you do with a piece of paper? We first made a dog and then a cat, but the possibilities could have been endless.
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1Eisner, E.(2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach
and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Retrieved from https://www.arteducators.org/advocacy/articles/116-10-lessons-the-arts-teach.