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Don’t forget, our giveaway sponsored by Brooklyn5and10.com ends at noon EST tomorrow! If you haven’t yet entered to win your choice of these 3 amazing moving papercraft kit models by Saka Karakuri, there’s still time!

To enter our contest, leave a comment on the contest entry post (NOT this post!). We’ll be randomly picking a winner tomorrow – good luck!

The contest will close on Tuesday, November 3rd, at 12pm EST. Good luck!

Today on Folding Trees we’re very excited to present a giveaway for a papercraft kit from Brooklyn5and10.com, an online shop offering a selection of affordable whimsical gifts, growing kits and craft projects. The prize will be your choice of Saka Karakuri paper animation kit, delivered direct to your door! (Retail value $9.95 plus shipping).

	Teeter Totter by Saka KarakuriThe first steps of a budding ‘bot This is Saka’s most popular model. The adorable robot walks as the crank is turned. Kawaii!
	Climate Change by Saka KarakuriA penguin attempts to escape the thawing tundra! Turn the crank and the penguin helplessly repeats his attempts to lift-off. Sadly, our darkly humorous penguin is not equiped to fly.
	Doomed by Saka KarakuriTurn the crank and this fish flops helplessly on the cutting board. Sad, but darkly humorous.

A little more about the prize… These kits are original Japanese karakuri or “trick mechanism” by Keisuke Saka, one of the world’s best paper engineers. Saka’s beautiful designs use only a few moving parts, yet produce elegant (and darkly humorous!) movement. Saka paper automata models are easy to do with complete illustrated instructions. Just cut out, fold, glue and assemble. Recommended for ages 12 and up (younger with adult help).

To enter our contest, click through to Brooklyn5and10 and take a look at all their cool papercraft kits, then come back here and leave a comment on this post saying which of the 3 kits pictured above you’d like to win!

The contest will close on Tuesday, November 3rd, at 12pm EST. Good luck!

UPDATED: The contest is now closed. Thanks to all who entered – we’ll be announcing the winner later today!

Photo by Flickr user: ma-rissa

Hi Everybody,

Happy Monday! Today I wanted to give you a quick reminder of all the places where you can find Folding Trees and June and Me of course. Obviously you can see our (mostly) daily posts here on Foldingtrees.com. We are also on Facebook so please come and have a look and join the Folding Trees page.  In the right sidebar you can see our latest status updates.

Also please feel free to join our group on Flickr with 340 member and almost 1000 pictures posted, there is always something to feel inspired by. Don’t forget to post some of your own projects; they do not have to be from a tutorial from the site but we do ask you to keep it a) paper related and b) limit the amount of photos you post for other people’s viewing pleasure.

Please do not forget that if you find some amazing links that are interesting for us to post on the site you can visit the SUGGEST A LINK page or if you would like to contribute to Folding Trees have a look on the SUBMISSIONS page.

Hope you have a lovely day!