Origami Holiday Decorations: Make Festive Origami Holiday Decorations with This Easy Origami Book: Includes Origami Book with 25 Fun & Easy Projects

By Florence Temko

Make festive origami holiday decorations with this easy origami book.

Beautify your home or classroom for the holidays with unique and elegant origami paper craft ornaments by world renowned origami artist, Florence Temko. Origami Holiday Decorations, is the festive origami design book with 25 fun-to-do 3D paper model projects that includes step-by-step instructions and color diagrams

Origami is the ideal craft for anyone who likes to create with their hands. The paper craft projects in this book can help you express your creativity by folding wonderful decorations out of single sheets of paper. Origami Holiday Decorations features designs for origami decorations that range from traditional to unique, simple to complex. Each model is explained with easy-to-follow diagrams and illustrated with a photograph of the finished project. A section on paper folding techniques makes it easy to get started, with special tips on how to adapt your origami projects to different sizes and papers. This easy origami book is sure to provide hours of entertainment for both children and adults.

This origami book contains:

• 61 page, full-color book
• 25 original origami projects
• Step-by-step instructions
• Color diagrams and pictures
• Paper folding guide and tips

The models from Origami Holiday Decorations will please discriminating tastes and are simple enough for paper folders with any level of skill, including kids!

Origami projects include:

• Holiday Calendar
• Santa Claus
• Jewish Star
• Festive Napkin
• Kinara Candle Holder
• Gift Envelope
• And many more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Release date: Oct 16, 2012
• ISBN: 9781462907472

Book preview

ORIGAMI

HOLIDAY

DECORATIONS

for  CHRISTMAS • HANUKKAH and

KWANZAA

Florence Temko

Illustrations by Barbara Poeter

Based on original diagrams by Florence Temko

Photos by Dave Kutchukian

TUTTLE PUBLISHING

Boston • Rutland, Vermont • Tokyo

First published in the United States in 2003 by Turtle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd., with editorial offices at 364 Innovation Drive, North Clarendon, VT 05759 U.S.A.

Copyright © 2003 Florence Temko

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from Turtle Publishing.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Temko, Florence.

  Origami holiday decorations for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa/Florence

  Temko.—1st ed.

      p. cm

  ISBN: 978-1-4629-0747-2 (ebook)

      1. Origami. 2. Holiday decorations. I. Title.

  TT870 .T4456 2003

  736'.982—dc21

20022075060

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Origami Holiday Decorations shows you how to brighten Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa with paper ornaments. Origami is the craft of folding a piece of paper into a recognizable object using only your hands. Many people are fascinated with origami and find it to be a relaxing, yet challenging hobby

Decorating Christmas trees with origami has become a tradition in many homes, libraries, and museums. Origami ornaments have also found their way into Hanukkah celebrations, but this is the first time that a book includes such ideas for Kwanzaa. Some of the projects relate to a specific holiday, but most of them make wonderful decorations for any of the three holidays.

In Origami Holiday Decorations you will find a lot of practical information, including:

• Step-by-step instructions

• How to make unique ornaments and decorations

• How to create new designs

• How to use different papers

• How to teach origami to others

• How to use origami as an educational tool

• How origami fits into the world of computers and technology

I hope you will find that it's great fun to make holiday ornaments that can produce oohs and aahs year after year.

About Origami Techniques

To help you make sense of the lines and arrows on the drawings, you should study the explanations of a few basic techniques. It will be well worth a few minutes to learn to recognize the Four Important Symbols and Three Procedures, which are international standards for origami.

Any action to be taken at each step is shown in red on the diagrams.

FOUR IMPORTANT SYMBOLS

Learn to recognize these four simple clues, which are often overlooked by beginners.

1. Valley Fold

Fold the square in half by bringing one edge of the paper toward you and matching it to the opposite edge.

A valley fold is always shown

Reviews for Origami Holiday Decorations

[hopeevey · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

While most of the models are simplistic, a few strike my fancy. The Turkey is brilliant - I am totally making some as Thanksgiving decorations. The author suggests making the Gift Envelope out of fabric as an impromptu purse, which I do want to try. I also want to do the Bowl, Star, and Dove Candy Dish models.