Paper boats speak to the child in all of us because making paper boats is something that children from diverse cultures have done for hundreds of years. From rural India and urban Japan to wealthy Kenya and poor America. Transcending status and privilege, this simple, playful and creative act inspires joy and wonder in the hearts and minds of children. In making a paper boat, a child learns to create something new with what they have, and to see their imagination shape reality. A piece of plain paper or scrap of discarded magazine is transformed – two dimensions become three. Imagination takes wing and then takes shape.