I just ordered an origami book off the internet, hoping it’ll be fun. Does anybody here do origami? How much do you enjoy it? I’ve done origami once or twice, nothing special. It looks challenging, but fun at the same time!
Collin 
You need to get in touch with Aaron Walden.
–James
aka “Walden” in these parts!
I’ve had a couple of phases where I did lots of origami. I liked doing it, but what the heck do you do with all those little folded animals, people, and objects??? I had boxes full of them and ended up throwing most of them away eventually.
Get a 4-bit box of paper clips, and bend the middle part of a clip back, to make an “S” shape. Glue it to the top of one of the paper animals. Voila… Christmas ornament… repeat as necessary.
I have been considering learning origami. I must admit that I’ve been influenced by Walden’s great ability and talent with the medium.
In my German class there is a little red wine glass that has been fashioned out of a candy wrapper. Whoever made that has a lot of talent (it was probably Walden! 
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I also want to learn to knit.
Yes, I did a few of those. I didn’t want to completely cover the tree with them though, so I stopped with a few.
I give 'em away to kids.
That’s a really super idea. And the kinds will probably insist that you show them how to do it, too. 
Give them away to anybody, not just kids. Some of my most treasured gifts are origami creations. I think everyone would appreciate such a gift, even–or maybe even especially–for no special occasion.
Carol
I did that for a while too. The older ones do want to see how it’s done. The younger ones squash. Cute little things.
Origami is cool. About 35 years ago I won an origami competitionat school. I was a bit of a fraud because the ‘hovercraft’ I folded was improvised pretty much constructed by accident. Luckily for me no one asked me to demonstrate how I made it.
Fraud or not, I ate the whole jumbo-sized chocolate bar prize myself. I was a horrible kid.
Straying from the point: Cranberry, I’m not Christian, nor religious at all, but there is surely no arguing with that avatar, man. Respect.
You’re not supposed to fold little animals, just paper!
Reminds me of the whole “bonsai kitten” hoax a while back.
They do, and it is a blast showing them how to make Velociraptors. Kind brings back my sense of wonder from when I was their age.
This is a really cool book:
I used to know a lot of origami in elementary school. I can still make a crane and a hawk.
Do paper airplanes count as origami?
In my book, yes. Folding paper is origami I think.