Origami Dove For Chanukah

Chanukah starts tomorrow night, and I am running behind with my plans for origami decorations, but I did manage to make a few origami doves with olive branches to share with you, and hopefully my plans for an origami wall hanging, origami cake toppers (for a birthday tomorrow night on the 1st night of Chanukah) and an origami garland or two will materialize tonight. I am actually thinking that this origami dove would be great done in my giant origami style, so stay tuned for that, which seems much more likely than a wall hanging, hmmmm. Origami is a great craft for all ages, and it is something one can introduce to children from a fairly young age, and as they mature they can tackle more difficult folds. There isn’t anything quite like the pleasure of succesfully completing an origami animal, or an origami dreidel, or even an origami star of david, so grab some paper and lets get folding!

I attached my olive branch with a dab of glue, and also anchored some of the birds with a glue stick so they would like a bit flat.

While there are many ways to make an origami dove, this is the one I chose, and the instructions can be found here. 

If you are not familiar with origami, diagrams may be difficult to follow so I suggest doing a search for an instructional video, and there are many to choose from.

Happy Chanukah and Happy Chanukah crafting!