Create handmade origami gifts for your friends and family, such as a pencil case, a gift box, or a paper flower bouquet. Step-by-step instructions and photographs guide readers through projects of varied difficulty. Crafters will increase visual-spatial reasoning skills while having fun.

Paper is the ideal medium to craft with: it is accessible, versatile, rewarding and creative. This fantastic book explores contemporary decorative and traditional papercrafts, and offers more than 175 projects for crafters to make. Techniques incude papier mache, collage, paper-making, and a whole range of decorative ways to use and create place settings, gift tags and wrapping paper, napkins, place settings, a mobile, and many more items. Three-dimensional paper constructions include children's toys, bowls, and wrapped paper beads. A final chapter introduces origami, with projects graded according to skill required.

Beautiful, full-color photographs accompany step-by-step instructions and diagrams for 20 functional boxes, which range from conventional squares to those in the form of a bird, basket, cat's head, flower, and more.

This intriguing mixture of art and geometry will excite both your creativity and your curiosity. Out from under your fingers will come strikingly exquisite forms: wish on your own handmade shooting star, all silvery, golden, or fiery red; “grow” pretty pink paper cherry blossoms (symbol of Japan, home of origami), and build pyramids, cubic modules, and other dimensional figures.

Includes illustrated instructions for origami projects that range from simple to challenging.

Amazing Origami Dinosaurs Ebook is the instructions for 10 amazing origami dinosaur models! This book includes 32 highly realistic tear-out folding papers along with information on your favorite dinosaurs, including: Tyrannosaurus Rex--A true monster in all its fearsome glory Velociraptor--Clever and fast, these hunters could run up to roughly 40 mph Brontosaurus--The "thunder lizard" reached up to 72 feet in length, despite being a strict vegan Triceratops--Known for its intimidating horns and bony frill Pteranodon--A genus containing the largest flying reptiles, some boasting a wingspan of over 23 feet Spinosaurus--The largest of all carnivores, topping even Tyrannosaurus Rex, with a large, spiny sail Stegosaurus--A heavy herbivore with distinctive bony plates rising from its back and a nasty spiked club tail And more! This book is recommended for those who have some experience with origami folding. Children under 14 will need the help of an adult to complete these intermediate level projects. Land-dwellers, sea creatures and flyers--there are models here for every dinosaur lover to enjoy!

Join the fold and discover this timeless art form. World's Best Origami is an amazing collection of more than 100 of the most unusual and best-loved origami patterns ever created. Expert origami artist Nick Robinson has collected traditional origami patterns as well as his own pieces and those from some of the greatest origami artists in the world- many in print here for the first time ever. • More than 100 pieces-the most comprehensive origami book on the market •Projects rated from beginner to advanced and include everything from boxes, containers, geometrics, and abstracts to figures, birds, animals, and flowers, and more-this unique volume has something for everyone at every skill level •Each diagram clearly displayed with easy-to-understand instructions •The only book to include the works of several masters of the craft, including Edwin Corrie and Francesco Guarnieri, as well as the author

Origami Boxes is a Japan Publications publication.

Take your paper folding to an advanced level with this user-friendly origami book. From shimmering hummingbirds to magnificent bats, from a stunning panther mask to graceful sea turtles, Michael G. LaFosse's complex and beautiful origami projects are well known around the world. Focusing on models from nature, Advanced Origami provides unparalleled instruction on how to create master-class level 3D origami paper folding projects. The origami designs are challenging--they require some folding experience--but the results are more origami art than craft. Paper folders will create projects that can be displayed or given as gifts. Sophisticated origami or paper crafts fans will appreciate the unique origami designs along with complete detailed instructions and easy-to-follow color photos and diagrams. Advanced Origami also features information on paper selection and preparation, advanced techniques such as "wet folding" and making your own paper. This origami book contains: 128 page, full-color book 15 original and challenging projects Step-by-step instructions Colorful diagrams and photographs Advanced techniques and tips In recent years origami has evolved beyond simple folding and creasing into a true art form akin to sculpture. For those seeking to learn origami at such a level, Advanced Origami provides all the essential information and techniques. Soon you will be able to design and fold your own origami sculptures! Origami projects include: North American Cardinal Koi Fish Origamido Butterfly Pond Frog And many more…

"This pack includes step-by-step instructions for 10 origami boxes of all shapes, some with lids and some self-closing, and 232 sheets of origami paper in more than 30 different colors and patterns, printed on both sides, and bound into the book for easy removal."--Amazon.