5th grade PHiZZ Sculptures

These sculptures are the latest phenomena created by my 5th grade students. Wow! My kids are pretty comfortable with origami, so I thought this would be a win-win project and I was right!! However, I won't say it's been easy, but with a bit of teamwork, we are doing great. I was worried for a minute that we had bitten off more than we could chew, but the kids really stepped up to the challenge. Now a few of them are PHiZZ junkies and I can't get them to stop :) The sculpture consists of 30 pieces of folded paper units. I bought 5 reams of colored copy paper and we've gone through almost every piece. Prior to folding, I cut the paper down into 8x8 pieces. Yes, my shoulder is experiencing paper cutter syndrome from all the chopping. It took us about 2 class periods to get through all the necessary folding. Students stored their pieces in a large mailing envelope during the course of the project. Building the sculpture was the second hurdle of the assignment and that took about 2 class periods as well. Click here for the link that will take you to the directions as well as a video from the creator of the PHiZZ unit, Tom Hull