Make your money into something more! With Dollar Origami, you'll learn how to fold your dollars into frogs, scorpions, and other creatures and objects. We handle money every day. We're used to handing over a few bills for a coffee or a few more bills for a book or a new item of clothing. But it's fairly rare these days to be able to turn just one dollar into anything. A dollar won't buy you a camera or a shark--but there is a way to make it into one! Dollar Origami teaches you how to turn your currency into almost anything with just a few folds. With simple instructions, full-color photos, and 100 sheets of paper to practice on before you use your own money, you'll be crafting beautiful butterflies, adorable penguins, and more in your own home in no time. Sometimes, your money can go farther than you think--and with Dollar Origami, it can also provide you with much more fun!

Step-by-step instructions and clear diagrams show paper folders at all levels of expertise how to fashion 37 origami models from dollar bills. Beginners will enjoy making a boat and a butterfly. Windmills and peacocks will suit intermediate-level hobbyists. An alligator and bison should prove no problem for advanced paper folders.

Presents illustrated, step-by-step instructions for making origami figures and objects with paper money, rated from simple to complex.

Popular as party favors and presents, origami figures folded from paper money offer clever possibilities for folders at all levels of skill. This easy-to-follow guide features thirty-two simple models, both traditional and original. Figures include a heart, a house, and an array of animals, from a bird and a butterfly to a whale and a rhinoceros. There's even a model of George Washington himself! Numerous diagrams illustrate each model, rendered in dark and light green to indicate the two sides of a bill. The finished models are shown in full color.

Won Park has taken the ancient art of origami to a whole new level. Using American currency, Park transforms dollar bills into creative works of art. He relies on the fibrous quality of the paper to fold, bend and twist hundreds of times per model without tearing. With no cutting and no pasting, Park is able to incorporate the details on the bills into his model designs. His signature koi fish is folded in such a way that the patterns on the dollar bill become the scales on the fish, and even the facial features fall in exactly the right place. His designs include a wide array of vehicles, animals, and mythical creatures. In this book, step-by-step instructions are provided for 20 distinct models that are bound to challenge even the most proficient folders. The challenge includes a Formula 1 race car, a toilet, a butterfly, a koi fish, a scorpion, a sea turtle, a fox, an ox, a marlin, a car, a praying mantis, a dragon, a spider, a stag beetle, a stegosaurus, a bat, Pegasus, a fighter jet, a battle tank, and a pig. All models can be made with either one or two dollar bills. Why worry about the declining value of the U.S. dollar? Follow the instructions in this book, and you can transform your dollars into works of art!

The popular author of "Dinosaur Origami" details clever projects, which range from a Jedi to a horseshoe crab, and an American Eagle to an Oriental dragon, all made from dollar bills. For a little extra fun, amazing facts about U.S. currency appear throughout.

John Montroll has consistently expanded the limits of the ancient art of Japanese paper folding. Now in this exciting new volume of more than 30 original models, the world-renowned origami master departs from the traditional square form and crafts each eye-catching creation from an ordinary dollar bill. Using the familiar rectangular shape as a base, Dollar Bill Animals in Origami offers more than 800 clear, easy-to-follow diagrams for every level of folder, from beginner to expert. You may use either actual dollar bills or any paper cut to the same proportions to create a stunning display of animals of land, air, and sea: giraffe, unicorn, apatosaurus, parrot, owl, shark, and many more. Also included are pictures of each completed project and guided instructions for basic folds. With this innovative book, an exciting journey in origami art is as close as the nearest dollar bill.