Puppies take alot of love and time. With a new puppy comes feeding, walking, cleaning, and grooming. If you are not ready for the responsibility of a real puppy, perhaps you could begin with a paper puppy. The Sleepy Puppy origami model is cute, stands up, and looks like it needs a nap. All puppies are cutest when they are napping.

There may well be over 20,000 different species of butterfly worldwide, which any good lepidopterists would know. Butterflies are actually matured caterpillar, the fuzzy worm like creatures that devour trees and leaves. After eating enough, the caterpillar folds itself into a butterfly. Many butterflies have remarkable colors and pattern, to scare predators and attract other butterflies. When folding the origami butterfly model, you are encouraged to use brightly patterned paper.

Not a book about origami, here is a book made out of Origami. This eight page book is made from a single sheet of paper, and has a colored jacket. Without books, what would we read when the power was out ? Poems, stickers, notes, secret codes, and bible verses fit nicely on the square pages. Make several and write an anthology.

Flowers are how plants make more plants. Many flowers
need bees to spread pollen, so they must be attractive. People also love
flowers, and being a person, so do I. This paper flower model is a classic
chinese origami pattern, and has a marvelous locking trick that is quite
elegant. Learning to fold the paper flower introduces some essential folds,
like the inside squash and inside mountain folds.

Could you imagine an origami model that involved soaking the paper in water, or crunching and wrinkling the paper ? The wet mushroom model is a marvel of unconventional folding, and is remarkably realistic. These mushrooms look like they really grew in the wild, or they look like plaster or clay. Nobody guesses that they are paper without touching them.