AS she smoothed out the outer petals, eight-year-old Yip Zhi Yean’s eyes lit up when she finally completed her origami daisy, a gift for her mother. Zhi Yean was among the 20 children aged from five ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.

Modern origami was popularized throughout Japan and the United States through exhibitions of the work of Akira Yoshizawa, the grandmaster of origami, who developed a standard way to teach folding ...