Dollar Bill Animals in Origami :: Education by Design Store

Customer Reviews

good but tough

2008-01-20
The book has some great ideas but the directions aren't easy to follow. They seem to skip steps and you are left trying to figure them out. A decent book, but not for beginers. The 2 best books I own for $ Oragami are "The Buck Book" and "The guide to Hawaiian-style money folds". Great directions with pictures.

animals for a dollar

2007-04-11
GREAT book.. loads of fun.. challenging.. Will keep me busy for quite a while..

Masterful creations

2006-03-23
There is a huge variety or animals, the models are not as hard as I thought they would be. I would recommend this book over any other I have purchased. There aren't any simple models thrown in to just fill the pages, they are all first class creations.

Maybe you can do it if you've done origami before???

2005-03-04
Certain folds are impossible to figure out from the pictures and arrows. For example, in the "Swan", step 4 shows what looks like 3 folds... I think. And then a triangle like shape seems to be the result in step five. The step they show does not make any sense.

I had to figure it out from the picture of how it turned out. After twenty minutes, I got it, but with no help from the directions given.

Many other pictures show a fold that you later figure out, were supposed to leave part of the bill out of the fold (Did that make much sense... No? Now you know what the book is like.).

Yes, it is possible, but I'm thinking a video or personal instruction might be better for a first time origami guy like myself.

Cute little animals

2004-11-18
Maybe because we see money every day folding it into origami is very interesting, This book has clear instructions on how to make a variety of animals from dollar bills. (Use the Look Inside feature on Amazon to see the variety of origamis you can make.) The instructions have a clear diagram for every step of the folding.

That doesn't mean folding animals is easy. Dollars don't hold creases very well, and both sides of the dollar are the same color which makes following a diagram difficult. Also like in normal origami the cooler it looks the more frustrating it is to make it (usually). Duck Star and Fish are pretty easy to fold, but as for Unicorn- whew boy.

I recommend this to people who want to give money as a gift, but still make it personal, or to people who just think it would be cool to do origami with money. They patterns are cute, and there are not so many books on money folding out there.

Practicality

2004-04-18

Clear, complete directions for learning the basic folds, plus illustrations and diagrams for creating models of 30 different animals — all graded according to difficulty. Begin with a sailboat or starfish, go on to a duck or goose, and finish with such challenges as a penguin or elephant. Dollar bills not required.

Currency Cornucopia

2003-12-29
This book has a terrific variety of animals that can be made out of dollar bills, assuming you already have some knowledge of origami

Finally you can whip out a bill at a bar and produce a realistic-looking rendition of your favorite horse, rabbit, gazelle or dinosaur.

This book is a must!

Total confusion 2002-01-20
Having mastered the Klutz book I wanted to move on to more diversified origami animals using dollar bills. This book is impossible to follow. The author does NOT show dollar bills (so you can judge where you are going)only shades of gray. He uses a variety of arrows which are explained elsewhere in the book, and he shows with an insufficient number of pictures how to create the folds.

THE BEST OF ALL ORIGAMI BOOKS 2002-01-15
I received the Dollar Bill Animals in Origami by John Montroll as a gift and its one of the finest books in my collection. I want to make all the animals shown in the book and display them. I tried the elephant and found the instructions to be crisp and clear. I am sure the kangaroo, camel and the giraffe will take some more effort. But the trick is in doing a few steps at a time and repeating them over a few times and then proceeding. That way the steps are automatically memorized too!

I loved it! 2001-10-22
This book is great! Some of the folds are quite difficult but he has a good mix of easy and difficult in this book.