Best of all, you end up with a very cool model. This magic of turning a flat piece of paper into a three dimensional sculpture is, perhaps, the most enchanting feature of origami. Parents often tell me that their daughter or son came home and spent a week filling the house with a favorite model. This talent is obviously useful to visual artists, but it is also of the greatest use to our creative scientists and engineers. And, if you are looking at this page on your computer monitor you know how important graphics and visual methods for presenting information are becoming.
Origami is a relatively painless way to have kids realize the importance of sequencing.
Teachers spend a ton of time with some kids because the child doesn't understand that some things have to be done in a certain order of steps to be successful. If a child hasn't imprinted on the pattern of a well built story, then they simply don't see the importance of following a sequence of steps. Arithmetic relies on the first things first stuff, too. If you have kids you know that their ability to estimate the relative size of things develops during grade school years. In math they have to work on getting a feel for fractions.