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Horrorgami: Spooky Paper Folding for Children with Other

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This book has some cute ideas but there is a lot of cutting and gluing involved. The authors do have a couple of pretty good origami books "Essential Origami" and "The New Origami" but unfortunately this is not one of them. I do not mind models made from more than one square but please, no cutting and gluing. Maybe the origami world needs a good halloween themed book.

I had a lot of fun making the origami in this book for Halloween decorations. I especially liked the fangs and the spider. I think the Biddles have come up with some creative origami designs that I have never seen elsewhere. The book come with enough paper to make all the designs. My only complaint is that although the paper was nicely preforated, it wasn't exactly square. Still, it was a fun way to introduce origami to the kids.

I got this book so I could review it for a present, but I found that the most interesting models are flat. This may be ok for some, but I like origami to be three dimensional. I am trying to improve the bat design for halloween to use it as decoration right now. This can be done by folding lines that converge in the upper angle of the wings. Maybe I will try and make an origami head too... as it is cut in the book.

It has some okay designs, however none are 3D and the only two colors you get are orange and black. Now this is fine for Halloween, but they show you projects with blue, yellow and red too.

The paper itself is very thin and the colors are coated onto the paper. This gives them a fine dust that comes off on your hands, so this may not be good if your child has allergies. Makes clean up necessary too. My child's hands needed a good washing afterwards. Make sure your child is dressed in old clothes as it may stain light colored ones. Don't use on a nice tablecloth either. It reminded me more of carbon paper then construction paper. The pieces are cut in squares. Looks to be about 6" X 6", so projects end up pretty small.

This book wasn't at all what I expected and overall I was disappointed in the quality of the paper.

I don't recommend this product.