Origami Animals: Action Lizard

This lizard is a lot of fun. It's constructed with modules that are connected with a "hingelike" mechanism. You can wiggle the lizard holding its tail or its head, and it will dance for you!.

The lizard was designed by Tomoko Fuse. The diagrams can be found in the book The New Origami, by Steve and Megumi Biddle.
I folded it with twelve 3" (75 mm) squares of floral colored origami paper.

Origami Decorations: Woven Dish

This is a very simple woven dish, but yet very elegant. It's made with 12 strips of 15 ½"x ¾" (394 mm x 19 mm) elephant hide paper.

And it goes nicely with the pineapple of my previous post...

The woven dish was designed by Toshikazu Kawasaki. The diagrams can be found in his book, Doctor's Origami Dream Book, ISBN 9784255003788.

Origami Fruits: Pineapple

After folding a few origami pineapples from different creators, I found out this one, that became my favorite one.

It's a modular construction, that starts by folding 6 rings, that are then glued together (sorry!, not for purists).  The leaves are then inserted on the top.

The whole process it's a little time consuming, as it consists of several modules, but the modules are very easy to fold and assemble, and the final model looks really nice.

The origami pineapple was created by Kumasaka Hiroshi. The diagrams can be found in the book, Doctor's Origami Dream Book, ISBN 9784255003788, by Toshikazu Kawasaki.

I folded the pineapple with a total of 63 squares of paper: 48 of different shades of orange, 8 yellow, and 9 green.  I used Note Cube paper, which is copy paper that already has been cut into 3 ½" (90 mm) squares, which is very convenient for origami modulars.