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How to Teach Paper-Folding and Cutting by Norma MacLeod, 1892
 
'How to Teach Paper-Folding and Cutting' by Norma MacLeod was published by March Brothers in Lebanon, Ohio in 1892. Although several chapters in the work arebased on the Froebelian occupation of Ausschneiden und Aufkleben, there is no mention of this Froebelian origin in the work.

A full copy of the work can be accessed here.

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Analysis

The work is divided into five chapters. They contain:

1. Introductory material

2. Simple examples of the Froebelian occupation of Ausschneiden und Aufkleben.

3. More complex examples of the Froebelian occupation of Ausschneiden und Aufkleben.

4. Designs allowing children to use differently coloured papers and then swap cut-off pieces pieces to make multi-coloured designs.

5. Simple leaf and flower designs made by the fold and cut method

6. More complex leaf and flower designs made in a similar way..

7. Creating polygons by the fold and one cut method and using them as the bases of fold and cut designs.

8. Designs for fold and cut borders.

9. Simple designs for solids made by the cardboard modelling method.

10. More complex designs for solids made by the cardboard modelling method.

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Fold and One Cut Polygons

The Fold and One Cut Hexagon

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The Fold and One Cut Pentagon

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The Fold and One Cut Heptagon

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The Fold and One Cut Octagon

A single diagram earlier in the book shows how to make this polygon from an eight-layer right angle isosceles triangle.

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