April 18, 2012
Origami Dinosaurs
Posted by Evelyn Mervine
Waaayyy too excited about this.
This past weekend during some post-thesis retail therapy, I made a wonderful discovery in the local $1 store: origami dinosaurs! Since the box only cost $1 and my origami skills are lacking, I bought 5 boxes.
Tonight my friend Dan and I attempted our first origami dinosaurs. We started with T-Rex since the instructions looked simpler than the other dinosaurs.
So many origami dinosaurs.
How many PhD students (and recent PhD graduates) does it take to figure out the origami instructions?
After some struggling along, our T-Rex creations look *almost* like the one on the box:
Rawr!
I think these origami dinosaurs may need to make friends with Paleontologist Barbie.
Does anyone have any good dinosaur origami instructions? Has anyone else made origami dinosaurs?
Your book doesn’t look like the one my son has (see http://www.amazon.com/Origami-Dinosaurs-Kit-Michael-LaFosse/dp/0804839085/), so I thought it might be the ‘other’ book on the topic. However, a quick check on Amazon shows 20-plus books about making origami dinosaurs.
My son’s book has some that look pretty good and others that are not so good. He enjoys doing the apatosaurus, which uses two sheets. However, the book has more than just dinosaurs. Included are an archaeopteryx (good), trilobite (nothing special), and an ichthyosaurus (poor).
By the way, if you’re interested in toys, at Palaeontology Week at our state museum (here in South Australia), they had some Burgess Shale plush toys which they had purchased via the internet, including an anomalocaris.
The more dinosaur origami, the better! Burgess Shale plush toys sound AWESOME! I’ll have to look into those.