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  • Publisher: David & Charles
  • Edition: BC Paperback
  • Publication: 30 September 2025
  • ISBN 13/EAN: 9781446316405
  • Stock: 50+
  • Size: 190x190 mm
  • Illustrations: 0
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $12.99

Easy Origami Animals

$12.99

400 pages ready to fold with 10 step-by-step tutorials by Guillaume Denis

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Book Description

Create beautiful paper animals with this easy origami guide, with 10 tutorials and 400 pages of high-quality origami paper for you to fold straight away.

This stunning book will provide hours of enjoyment, creating lovely animal designs that can be used for home décor, greetings cards and gifts or simply just for the fun of folding!

The book starts with ten easy step-by-step tutorials showing you how to fold a range of gorgeous stylised paper animals, including: frog, monkey, elephant, snail, pig, cat, butterfly, cicada, seal and goose. Each tutorial includes written instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams which show you exactly how to fold the paper to achieve a perfect result every time.

Once you have mastered the animals, you'll find 400 pages of coloured and patterned square paper sheets that are perforated allowing you to easily remove them and start folding. As well as the solid colours, gorgeous illustrated patterns interspersed throughout will give you opportunities to create more colourful animals, or can be used in your other origami and papercraft projects too.

Origami is a relaxing and mindful activity that has proven benefits to mental wellbeing, as does being surrounded by nature, so the fusion of these two subjects is a pure delight. You can create easy paper animals from this book without getting too hung up on realism or perfection just enjoy the act of folding and making something beautiful.

So whether you are a total beginner to origami or have been paper folding for years, this book has all you need to create your own paper menagerie.

About the Author

About Guillaume Denis

Guillaume Denis worked from 2004 to 2007 for a French publisher as a technical advisor and illustrator for Origami: The Pleasure of Folded Papers. He has been a member of the MFPP (French Paper Folding Movement) since 1990, which publishes the magazine Le Pli, for which he created the original illustrations from 1996 to 2004 and wrote various articles, including one on the art of the diagram for origami models. He has also co-organized the Rencontres de Mai (French paper folding congress). His two books (Origami 1 & 2) are published by Éditions Eyrolles.

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