Easy Origami Birds

Create beautiful paper birds 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 avian designs that can be used for home decor, 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 birds, including: swan, crow, crane, duck, owl and cormorant. 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 birds, 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 birds in action, 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 birds 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 exactly what you need.