Origami Rockets: Spinners, Zoomers, Floaters, and More

My son had it from the school library and liked it so much we bought him a copy.

Yes, all of these models are variations on the lilly base, but my kid and I had a lot of fun folding them. They fly less well than a good paper airplane but they do fly. Especially if you put a foil nose cone like the book suggests. Then it flies more like a paper dart. Also the foil nose cones give the rockets a more "rocket" like look. Ok maybe I'm easily amused, but I've folded a lot of different models some really hard and I wanted a book that had good intermediate models that would interest my kid, and wound up liking them myself.

Not coming from a real strong origami background, I have gotten a lot of use from this book. I bought it thinking I could dredge up my childhood talents at folding to amuse my son. I managed to fold them all (so the directions must be decent), and my son loved them. Then I started giving them out around work, and people are keeping these paper rockets, folded out of squared off copy paper, on their desks, as if they are actually something precious.I appreciate that the book got me interested in origami again, and also showed me something of how one design evolves into another. Certainly not a book for the advanced folder, but if you have to come up with a toy out of a piece of paper, yes, they do really fly.Edith