{"id":1777,"date":"2025-03-28T05:55:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T21:55:26","slug":"blossom-origami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/blossom-origami\/","title":{"rendered":"Blossom Origami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/blossomorigamifc-960x960.jpg?resize=525%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23192\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Blossom Origami<\/em><br \/>\nby Clover Robin (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3DZphr7\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9798887771137\">Bookshop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> With 13 nature-inspired origami step-by-step patterns, this activity book has origami inspiration, original art, and extracts from well-loved nature poems, as well as 50 sheets of origami paper. <em>The three difficulty levels are clearly marked and the QR code links aspiring origami artists to how-to videos that cover all pieces and steps in the book.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/blossomorigamiint-960x480.jpg?resize=525%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23193\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s STEM Friday! (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blossom Origami by Clover Robin (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: With 13 nature-inspired origami step-by-step patterns, this activity book has origami inspiration, original art, and extracts from well-loved nature poems, as well as 50 sheets of origami paper. The three difficulty levels are clearly marked and the QR code links aspiring origami artists to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/blossom-origami\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blossom Origami&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-sF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":334,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/spot-spike-spiral-patterns-in-nature\/","url_meta":{"origin":1777,"position":0},"title":"Spot, Spike, Spiral ~ patterns in nature","author":"Sue Heavenrich","date":"April 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Spot, Spike, Spiral (Board book) by Sarah Grace Tuttle; illus. by Miriam Nerlove 28 pages; ages 2-4 Creative Editions, 2019 Spot. 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