Easy Origami (Dover Origami Papercraft)over 30 simple projects

My origami skills are rusty, but it is something that I used to do. Then stuff happens, as stuff does, and here I am several years later wondering how to refresh my memory. The moment I decided I was too good for this book is the moment I knew I had to start here.The dog, the rabbit, the tulip and stem... none of this is new to me. Simple projects, for children. And yet it's a great introduction and a fantastic refresher, with uncluttered shaded line drawings that turned out to be much easier to follow than photos. The old folds that used to be so easy flew off the page and back into my brain. And when I started getting new, more advanced books and digging out my old books, I realized that sometimes I'd come across a way of doing things in the "grown-up" books that was executed more simply, more efficiently, and more elegantly in this book. I've been looking back to this book to find better ways of accomplishing something, and applying those ways to more advanced projects in other books.And when it's four in the morning and I can't sleep, I'm not worrying over kusudama or hexaflexagons, I'm grabbing this book and playing with the frog or the boat designs to see what else I can do with them (or how badly I can mess them up.)The instructions are arrows and dotted and dashed lines, and single words or short phrases. I wish commonly used origami terminology was used a bit more in this book, instead of learning how to do the folds and remembering (or finding out) what they're called later. But the information is available in so many places it's not a huge loss here.Get this book for the kids, but when they go to bed, steal some of their paper and start with this book. It's a clear and painless introduction.

I’ve bought my grandkids a few origami kits/books, and this one is by far the best. This book starts easy and gets more complicated by building on previously learned folds. The pictures are clear and easy to follow.

The media could not be loaded. I purchased this book for a group of 4th-6th graders. It has been easy for the kids to follow the instructions and they have enjoyed the variety of content. Great introduction to origami!

The book has a lot of examples with easy to follow instructions. So fun! I set it out for the college kids I work with and they had such a good time making their origami items.

Great unexpenssive book for beginners and advance.

Perfect beginning Origami book

wanted one thing, a crane. my fault for not reading that the crane isn’t one of the 32 folds. now i have to find another book to get the instructions ( easier than trying to follow online, which isn’t working for me ) which is too bad because the origami in the book are all clearly shown and easy to follow.

Nice origami book, my granddaughter will love it