This beginner's guide will quickly acquaint kids and novices with the pleasures of paperfolding—and 24 pages of colorful origami paper will provide everything they need to get started! Perforated pages make it easy to remove the origami paper from the rest of the book. Easy instructions for mor... read more
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This beginner's guide will quickly acquaint kids and novices with the pleasures of paperfolding—and 24 pages of colorful origami paper will provide everything they need to get started! Perforated pages make it easy to remove the origami paper from the rest of the book. Easy instructions for more than 20 simple but satisfying projects include models of pecking and flying birds, a talking frog, an angel fish, a hermit crab, and an anteater.
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