Easy Dollar Bill Origami (Dover Crafts: Origami & Papercrafts)

In my opinion the most important part of any undertaking is implementation. If something can not be easily implemented it will most likely end in failure, this is true from systems of government to new hobbies to take up your spare time. With that in mind I can confidently say that dollar origami is easy to implement. This book and its intended designs are easy to implement for the following three reasons. 1- Everyone has access to a few dollars, even if they are not yours most people wont object to you showing them how to make a dollar look like a fish or a hat. You don't have to buy folding paper or use printing paper to make squares for folding. You can make your origami and spend it like normal money if you want. It brightens peoples day a little bit when you pay them with a 20 dollar bill that looks like a whale and its a great conversation starter if you want to share you hobbies. 2- The designs are easy. I have no experience doing previous origami and I was able to do every design in the book just by following the instructions. The most it took me to do one of the designs was 20 minutes, because I had to take time on some steps. That didn't take away from the experience though. 3- This is fun and the results are fast and easy to see. When you finish your bat it looks like a bat, your whale looks like a whale and you get a strong sense of satisfaction. So often in life our results are philosophical, intangible, or delayed, its nice to have something simple and immediate to admire and be proud of. With that said I fully recommend this book for people who want to enter the world of origami or just expand their origami to dollar bills. This would be fun to do with children, or just to show real quickly having a fun dinner with friends when your leaving a tip.

Fun and easy to follow. Very basic stuff. Great for kids.

This book is awesome! The models are very simple and I could usually understand the directions. Unfortunately, all of the directions weren't detailed at all. I could understand most of them because I have been folding origami for many years, but some steps might be confusing for beginners. Overall, I liked the book a lot.

I used this as a gift and placed dollar bills in several of the pages. Several people that I know have decided to use it the same way. Just about any age would enjoy it.

This book was exactly what the title says. -Easy, dollar bill, origami. The pictures/illustrations for the directions are simple, clear and straightforward. (If you like the preview, the whole book is exactly like that.) -Overall, simple, fun, quite affordable, -just what I wanted when I ordered it, and a great, "just for fun" little impulsive purchase. :) (-Heh, can't wait to go out w/the hubby and kids and leave a tip at a restaurant... lol.) (Hmmn... I bet this would even add a nice personal touch and a bit of "special"-ness in a case when giving money as a gift was necessary as well...) Cute book.

I found the directions not "easy" even though it stated easy. My son is very good at origami and said the same thing. We have adapted a few of the ideas to work. The book has nice illustrations, sturdy paperback binding. Would I buy it again? Probably not. Would I recommend to a friend? Probably not.

I got this for an 11 yr old boy with some crisp singles to go along with it. He is outgrowing toys but not yet a teenager. The Origami looked pretty simple. Maybe too simple for an 11 yr old but he seemed to love it and was excited to start making Origami with money.

One of the aspirations that my son has always had was to learn origami. For his eleventh birthday, I decided one of his gifts should be a book about origami. So when I shopped Amazon for just the right book, this one popped up as an option. I thought PERFECT, because I wouldn't need to buy origami paper, and who doesn't have a dollar bill handy? At his birthday party, dollar bills were being taken out and shapes were being tried. It added life to the party as people made the objects and felt the accomplishment of making their own "party favor." The directions were easy to follow with large illustrations. There is no way the book could be any simpler.

je pensais qu'il avait plus de diagrammes, et de model, mais c'est bien si on veux débuter...