Fortune Teller Mindfulness Project
Simple origami project that results in a beautiful installation.
Inquiry :
How can you use origami to reflect on life
experiences?
Subject: 5th Grade Art
2-3 Class periods
Standards:
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9.1.5.E Know and demonstrate how arts can communicate experiences, stories or emotions through the production of works in the arts.
Objectives:
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Students will understand how art can be used to express and reflect their life experiences while make an art installation for the school
Assessment:
Students will be assessed as they work using the following guidelines.
Score 1-3
Did student make an effort to make 3 fortune tellers
Did student participate in reflection through writing in their fortune tellers
Was student respectful to materials and others around them
Materials:
Procedures:
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Meditation Video
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PowerPoint presentation
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Origami Paper (atleast 3 pieces per student)
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Document camera
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Bulletin board for display
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T-pins to hang fortune tellers
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Pencils or other writing materials
Introduction:
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Opening meditation video. Students begin with eyes closed or heads down on desks to partake in a minute-long meditation
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This is the final year of elementary school for these students. To reflect on their time
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at the school, each student will make 3 origami fortune tellers. Within each one they
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will write based on a given prompt reflecting on their past, present, and future
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Teacher emphasizes that these will not be read by anyone and their will be no names on them. They are the only ones who will know what they wrote.
Begin project:
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Pass out origami paper.
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Teacher goes step by step for making an origami fortune teller with a document camera and
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projector.
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Students follow along.
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Before folding the final fortune teller, student and teacher pause folding to write the prompt inside
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First – What they are grateful for at the present
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Second – A lesson they learned in the past/ways they have grown
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Third – Their hopes for the future
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The teacher demonstrates for second fortune teller for students who need it, students who can do
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so independently are welcome to do so
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Students repeat making fortune tellers and writing in them for all three
Closing: Once each student has finished their fortune tellers and reflection, class moves
together to go hang with fortune tellers on the display. Final product is installation piece
reflecting the students’ elementary school journey.
Modification: Pre-folded fortune tellers after student tries to make on they feel frustrated so they
can still complete the reflection portion. No minimum requirement on reflections, so students
could go as simple or complex as they wanted
Extension: students who knew how to make fortune tellers were encouraged to help their fellow
students quietly throughout the process
Scaffolding: Teacher demonstrating how to make a fortune teller a second time for students who
need it
