Origami Zoo An Amazing Collection of Folded Paper Animals

Origami Zoo An Amazing Collection of Folded Paper Animals

In Origami Zoo, two of the world’s finest paper folders present an exciting collection of original origami animals. Their creatures, ranging from the exotic to the familiar, the elegant to the whimsical, will both inspire the beginner and challenge the most accomplished folder.

Choose among the dolphin, penguin, swan, owl, goose, kangaroo, praying mantis, or even the mythical Pegasus or extinct wooly mammoth. Each of these thirty-seven new projects is true origami-folded from a single piece of paper with no cutting or gluing-and is complete with clear step-by-step diagrams, instructions, and a photograph of the finished model.

Origami Zoo will challenge and delight anyone with a penchant for creating something wonderful out of (almost) nothing.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Lobser / Crap look cool!
Of all my origami books this is one of my least favorite. It does have some real Nice designs however half of the book the diagrams are not colored to assist with correct folds. All though it could have had better diagrams created all the projects in the book are fun to do.

Difficulty: Medium

This book i would recommend to be a second or third book to an collection due to the poorly done diagrams. The skill level for this is beginner to average level folds.

5 Stars What A Zoo!
Origami Zoo compiled many animal models that we all know and the folds are not difficult and each model averages around 50 steps: Be forewarned that 2 of the models are folded from rectangles, and one model, the spider, is folded from a triangle which will upset some origami purists who like squares. But all in all Origami Zoo is another nice book.

3 Stars paper craft
This is harder than it looks. Patience is a requirement. My swan was all right, but I decided not to do any more. It just wasn’t for me. Others may find it fun.

4 Stars Nice Origami book.
Lang’s book on Origami is a good buy for anyone interested in this ancient art of paper folding. It covers models that are simple to fold all the way to models that require more skill. It also includes quite a large variety of animals to explore.

4 Stars A great book full of variety!!
This is the first origami book I have bought,Origami Zoo. Before I got this book I had to print heaps of stuff off the internet, and before long I had a huge collection of stuff I put in a folder. I soon found out that all the models I had printed out were way too hard for me, even though I’m around the intermediate to advanced level!! As cool as they may sound, the Biplane always confused me, the Bee always ripped and the Alien always became too small and thick.

But then I discovered Amazon.com. Here there were millions of choices of origami books, but I chose to get “Origami Zoo, an Amazing Collection of folded paper animals.” This book was at my level exactly!!

My fav models are, so far:

- The Penguin. Even though this is one of the easiest, it still looks lifelike side-on.

- The Owl. This model is also 2D, but it perches on a thin rod, and looks lifelike as well.

- The Duck. This model is a particularly cute 3D one!

- The Sea Turtle. This model is both fun to make and cool to look at!!

- The Fox. This model is rather easy, 3D, and lifelike!

None of the models in this book are very easy. Most of them are at the intermediate level, but the last 10 or so models are complex. I still haven’t gotten to the real complex models yet, but when I do, I hope I have a lot of large origami paper on hand!!

This book contains info at the start, about folds, paper, designing models and so on.

I would recommend this book to people who like to make a variety of animals, not just plain four legged animals, but insects and sea creatures as well!!

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