Origami Dinosaurs for Beginners (Dover Crafts: Origami & Papercrafts)

Fun and keeps the kids busy!!

I am ordering the second book because I left my copy with my son's granparents. The book has very good introduction, quick practice of kite, squash etc. folds; without knowing these it would be very difficult to follow rest of the book. I practiced with my son (~4.5 yrs) the basic folds first...he of course could follow only the most basic folds and up to some point....then we folded dinosaurs going by instruction, mostly I folded them and it was a lot of fun. It was still difficult for me to shape the small feet, and some of the heads (T-rex, with opened mouth) I could not do. But being a beginner (pretty much never done much origami), I could make fair number of designs in this book. Also, it was fun to watch my son imitate the folds (of course doing it in his own way) and name them "kite fold", "squash fold" etc., then fold the paper by his own imagination and then explain to me that it is pterodactyl. He also invented his own technique which he still called "origami" in which he cuts out dinosaur body parts from recycled paper and sticks them together with stickers (or skotch tape) forming a dinosaur (kind of crafts, but for us this evolved from trying to do real origami). This technique he could use independently to create various dinosaurs without my help. I am happy with the content of the book and that it stimulated lots of creative activity.

John Montroll is just one of the best authors especially if you are a beginner. I have bought several of his books. They are all easy to understand..

Purchased this for my daughter who is beginning to explore origami. The instructions are clear and make sense, though I wish there could be a better illustration for the squash fold (a basic fold in the foundation for most of the dinosaurs) and ended up needing to look up a video. Otherwise everything was very well illustrated, and if you're familiar with origami or the squash fold, you'll be making these folded dinos in no time.

My son found the fold instructions confusing at time. He used it a few times and lost interest.

Gave to my friends boys for Xmas. They really liked.

I enjoy making dinosaurs (and other origami) for my Sunday School students. These are relatively easy, so I can make a creature in 15 or 20 minutes. (Which is very satisfying. I also work on intermediate-level dragons, but it takes me several hours to complete one. Which means it might be several weeks before one dragon is done.) John Montroll gives amazingly clear instructions. I've attached a picture of 3 dinosaurs (and part of a bunny, that I made for a student who does not like dinosaurs).

The origami in this book is just what i like. In fact, it was so easy, it only took me a week to make all models. They look so good.BUT This is a little harder than beginners but too easy for intermidiates. It's like a medium difficulty.After lookingat some other reviews, i decided to make a dicision. If you write a comment that says "toutorial please!", I will change this review and put in a toutorial for the hard parts.Now back to my review, This is so good, I can't wait to get the secong one!Highly reccommended for origami fansRRRRAAAARRRRR!!!!