A paper airplane swoops across the room. Just a piece of paper folded quickly, but you may be surprised to know the some piece of paper could be folded into hundreds of other useful things without any need for cutting or gluing. Paper Pandas and Jumping Frogs show you how to make flowers, boxes, puppets, and animals with paper, available from many neighborhood stores. Most projects are designed for beginners, but you will also find a few intermediate and advanced projects, all with instructions tested by people who never folded paper before.
In Paper Pandas and Jumping Frogs I have adopted a new approach to an enjoyable craft. I am not only showing how to turn them into useful party decorations, giftwrapping, and flower arrangements, and how to use them in other practical ways. Paperfolding has a long tradition in china. There children learn from parents and grand parents how to make boats, boxes and dollhouse furniture, and paper crafts are also encouraged in elementary schools. In the natural flow of communications, this folk art eventually reached Japan where it developed into the national art known as origami.
