Museum employees L.N. Akimova, T.V. Usova and N.V. Nevzorova deliver master-classes in this new craft technique in the Kirillov school during the whole school year. Pupils make New Year’s greeting cards, cards for the International Women’s Day, souvenirs for Christmas, Easter and other holidays. 12 lessons were conducted in February and over 300 hand-made articles were created there. It is planned to hold the same number of master-classes in April.
Iris folding technique is used to decorate postcards, photo albums, book covers, and photo frames. This technique gives a 3D-effect to the depiction and so the works are unusual. You need only cardboard, construction paper, scissors, and glue. When working in this technique, children develop their abstract thinking and reasoning, manual dexterity, attention, patience and accuracy.
