Excerpt from Paper Folding and Cutting: A Series of Foldings and Cuttings Especially Adapted to Kindergartens and Public Schools

Every scheme for art education must necessarily embrace the study of geometric plans figures and their mechanical construction.

The prescribed methods for this construction have been complicated, consuming much time, and, if learned at All, were easily forgotten.

Children would easily follow a dictation which would result in an Octagon, hexagon, Pentagon, etc., but were unable to repeat it independently the following day.

After various unsuccessful attempts to simplify the method of drawing these figure, my attention was called to paper folding and cutting.

The ease interest with which the children would make he four-pointed star, the four-leaved rosette, and the equilateral triangle, as outlined by The Prang Course of Drawing, suggested that possibly other figures. such as the crosses, the trefoil, the quatrefoil, the octagon, the hexagon, and pentagon, night be made in a similar manner.

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