Origami Fun!

This page is all about my favorite origami resources! I'm a beginner at origami and love to make animals especially. Here are some websites & books I like (and my favorite folds from 'em):

Web

Fumiaki Shingu's Origami Club has a TON of awesome origami tutorials with clear instructions! Here are some of my faves (beginner-intermediate): Fox | Snake | Lion | Fish
(*Note: Click "diagram" to view the tutorial; "video" and "animation" might not work, but "Youtube" will show you a tutorial video if available.)

Books!

• Origami Zoo: 25 Fun Paper Animal Creations! by Paul Jackson and Miri Golan (ISBN: 9781423620167)
• Snail
• Cat
• The Fish, Fox, Pig, and Dinosaur look pretty awesome, too, but I haven't tried those yet


• Hello Origami: 30 Fun & Easy Origami Designs for Secret Notes & Special Messages by Mizutama (ISBN: 9781940552316)
• So, like, ALL of this book is ridiculously cute--lots of simple, attractice designs that are great for gift tags and the like. The book's a pretty complete package; there aren't any stand-out folds I want to single out here.


• The Ultimate Book of Origami Animals: Easy-to-Fold Paper Animals ny Fumiaki Shingu (ISBN: 9784805315453)


• Anything by Fumiaki Shingu
• This is the origami artist whose works & tutorials got me into origami!! Shingu's tutorials are so easy to understand for me, and the resulting animal folds are sooo cute!!! Shingu has several books, and a great website called Origami Club full of free tutorials. You may have already seen several of their tutorials floating around the internet, too--often with the credit scrubbed off, sadly. (I came across the Crab tutorial and then hunted down the tutorial source and found so many more wonderful origami creatures to make!) I totally recommend checking out Fumiaki Shingu's works.


• Easy Origami for Beginners: Full-color instructions for 20 simple projects by Michael G. LaFosse (ISBN: 9780804851930)
• Horseshoe Crab
• Turtle
• Cardinal
• Anteater
• Hummingbird

Origami Books I Want to Check Out

• Origami Dinosaurs for Beginners by John Montroll (9780486498195)

Image Credits:

• Photo by Laitche, "Cranes made by Origami (paper). The height is 35mm.", 2007, via WikiMedia Commons; version on this page was cropped & resized in Photoshop.
• Photo by Dorothée Taverne, "Origami de souris - Photo de Dorothée Taverne", 2008, via WikiMedia Commons; version on this page was cropped & resized in Photoshop.