Super Easy Origami for Beginners: Learn to Fold Origami with Easy Illustrated Instructions and Fun Projects (New Shoe Press)

by Carri Hammett

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.

• ISBN13: 9780760379899
• Publish Date: 27 September 2022 (first published 7 June 2022)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: New Shoe Press
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 160
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Super Easy Origami for Beginners is a beginner friendly origami guide with tutorials by Carri Hammett. First released in 2011 as Origami 101, this reformat and re-release from Quarto on their New Shoe Press is due out 2nd Aug 2022. It's 160 pages and will be available in paperback format.

This is a very basic beginner manual. I liked the graphics and layout. Information is presented in straightforward easy to understand language and the format makes it easy to locate the info needed quickly. The sections are arranged around basic classic folds (kite, collapsed square, basic form, and collapsed triangle. Each tutorial builds on the information in the prior tutorials and by working through the book systematically, readers will build up enough of a skill set to move on to intermediate folding guides.

The book is lavishly illustrated throughout and the drawings & photos are clear and in color. There is an included explanation key for the folding diagrams at the back of the book. New symbols and folds are introduced in highlighted text boxes throughout with clear and easy to understand captions.

It also includes a glossary list of symbols. There are no supplies links or lists, but the necessary materials will be easily available at any big box store, stationery store, or online.

This is a nice addition to the crafter's library. It would also make a good choice for public or school library acquisition, makers' spaces, activity groups and the like.

Four and a half stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.