Making of paper airplanes is more than a hobby, 'a creative activity', which is fun to do. From the day I read that 'origami' or 'paper folding' activities can help in skill development, I have included few "origami" projects in my crafts syllabus. And making of boat, aeroplanes are among them. For example making a paper plane was really fun for my students.
I take Nursery class and age group is mostly 4 plus, so I try to do it in very easy steps. First of all I ask the children to watch me making paper plane. Providing them orgimai paper sheets (which I usually make with colouring poster paper), I ask them to decorate it with any kind of designs, even making simple circle or square shape is fine. Final step is again showing them to follow me in folding the paper in few easy steps. Last step is to fly the planes in class room, but most of them like to take their planes to home, as it is their own creation.
I hope that this idea can help parents or teachers in encouraging this simple craft or hobby which is fun to make. I am including many useful links where you can find more paper plane models.* paper plane sites from 'dmoz'
* Author of the site "Amazing paper airplanes" Kyong Hwa Lee holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico and has been working for more than 25 years in the aerospace industries. He has designed more than 100 paper airplanes over a 30-year period. He co-authored "Paper Airplane Fold-A-Day Calendar". This web page is made to share his designs world wide with other children, their parents and their teachers who enjoy paper airplanes.
- Amazing paper airplanes
- Links to other sites having same interests
* From Alex's gallery of two dozen paper airplane designs, visitors have selected the Dragon Plane and Paper Helicopter as their favorites. The Dragon, an original design, flies "true and fast" and is "the best plane to hit your teacher with." The Helicopter is popular because it is both simple to make and simple to fly. You can peruse the rest of the planes by difficulty of construction (easy, medium, hard) or jump right to the fastest, longest flying, or most unusual designs.
Link: Paper airplanes
* A blog: Paper air plane idea
* How to make paper plane
* You can find and download many free paper airplane model kits at this site:
* Step by step instructions on making paper airplanes at "How stuff works?":
How to Make Paper Airplanes
More sites:
Joseph Palmer's planes are "designed to fly," not look like real airplanes. As a paper airplane purist, none of his designs require cutting, taping or weights: just a single sheet of 8.5" by 11' paper and your fingers. There are only four designs here, but the illustrated instructions are excellent, and judging by visitor feedback, all of them are great flyers.
Link: Joseph Palmer's Paper Airplane
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