Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)

2015-06-14 Thread Peter Whitehouse
I have also seen science experiments where water was boiled in a waterbomb (bunsen burner, gauze mat) - the water stops the paper from burning - quite surprising I, on the other hand taught my kids to make them as a fun activity on a hot afternoon, with a cool watery payoff - they throw full of

Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)

2015-06-13 Thread leslie cefali
On Jun 13, 2015, at 6:04 PM, Anne LaVin anne.la...@gmail.com wrote: PS: I also always wondered why that name, where it originated. I thought it was called a water bomb base because it is the base you use for the water bomb model/blown up cube, which one can actually fill with water and

Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)

2015-06-13 Thread Hans Dybkjær
On 14/06/15 04.54, cafe...@pacific.net wrote: 65 years ago, when I first learned origami in first grade at Whittier Elementary School in Berkeley California, water bombs were literally water bombs. We folded them, blew them up, filled them with water (not always totally successfully) and

Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)

2015-06-13 Thread Anne LaVin
(Forwarding a reply for Yahoo user Laura sea4...@yahoo.com, please reply to the list or to her, not to me!): On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Gerardo @neorigami.com gera...@neorigami.com wrote: So in a nutshell, where does the waterbomb name come from, in the case of the traditional origami

Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)

2015-06-13 Thread cafe...@pacific.net
65 years ago, when I first learned origami in first grade at Whittier Elementary School in Berkeley California, water bombs were literally water bombs. We folded them, blew them up, filled them with water (not always totally successfully) and threw them. Messy, wet and really fun. Louise