Books by Marc Kirschenbaum

Amaze your friends and family with these easy-to-fold paper sculptures! This beginner-friendly kit contains everything you need to learn the art of Japanese paper folding! It teaches you how to create 30 of the most popular origami models (including ones with "interactive" moving parts!)--from animals, puppets, boxes and boats to the classic crane. The 30 elegant and easy-to-fold origami models in this kit include: Cute animals like the Folksy Fox and Lounging Frog--that your family will love! Action figures like the Dragon Puppet and Coyote Storyteller--paper puppets that "talk"! Paper airplanes like the High-tail-it Plane--give them a toss and watch them soar! Origami boxes such as the Bird Basket and Handy Candy Box--perfect for storing small trinkets and for presenting small gifts! And many more! The kit includes 78 sheets of beautiful origami paper in two sizes (6" and 4") plus a 64-page full-color book with easy-to-follow instructions to guide you through the projects.

Origami and Puzzles share a number of similarities, including attracting the interest of some of the same practitioners. Both can appear simple on the surface, but often contain interesting inner workings. They often exploit mathematical relationships so things fit together well. Some puzzles work very well as origami models and the pieces diagrammed here showcase that marriage. All of these works are based on existing puzzle designs, most of which are traditional dissection style challenges. Providing the opportunity to fold your own pieces makes the geometric relationships of the pieces more apparent, but not necessarily easier to solve. Every effort was made to have the pieces for these puzzles begin with the same sized square.