Benjamin John Coleman
This accessible beginner’s guide covers everything you need to know to start creating amazing origami art, featuring clear, step-by-step instructions with helpful photos.
Want to learn how to fold simple origami but are not sure how to start? With Super Easy Origami for Beginners, adapted from Benjamin Coleman’s best-selling Origami 101, you will feel confident in your skills quickly and eliminate frustrating mistakes and missteps.
Learn what you need, how to read folding patterns, how to select paper, and how to troubleshoot mistakes and turn paper into charming folded animals, flowers, and shapes. Building skills through fun projects, you will find success quickly and easily while gaining confidence to try another project.
Super Easy Origami for Beginners includes:
- Origami basics
- How to get started
- Tools and materials
- Folding terms and techniques
- Basic origami folding patterns
- Origami tips and tricks
- Troubleshooting mistakes
- Fun beginner-level projects
- Origami confidence
This is the most comprehensive beginner’s book available, yet it won’t overwhelm you with details and instruction you don’t need or want, so you can start enjoying your origami hobby immediately.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
THE KITE SHAPE
Folding the Kite Shape
Folding the Penguin
Folding the Broadleaf
Folding the Loon
Folding the Roosting Robin
Folding the Tropical Fish
Folding the Parakeet
Folding the Peacock
Folding the Baby Seal
Folding the Chick
Folding the Simple Swan
Folding the Sitting Dragon
Folding the Snail
Folding the Graceful Swan
THE COLLAPSED SQUARE
Folding the Collapsed Square
Folding the Crocus
Folding the Rambunctious Dog
Folding the Eight-Pointed Star
Folding the Flowering Branch
Folding the Pigeon
THE BASIC FORM
Folding the Basic Form
Folding the Flying Crane
Folding the Sitting Crane
Folding the Old Crow
Folding the Sea Lion
Folding the Rooster
Folding the Flamingo
Folding the Flying Dragon
THE COLLAPSED TRIANGLE
Folding the Collapsed Triangle
Folding the Frog
Folding the Three-Legged Gecko
Folding the Rock Lobster
SYMBOL INDEX BOOKMARK
