Title: DC Super Heroes Origami
Author: John Montroll
Rating: ☕ ☕ ☕ (3)
My son loves origami. Actually love isn't a strong enough word, more like he's obsessed with origami. So it's no surprise that when I mentioned that there was a book of origami featuring DC characters he insisted I let him read it as well. Admittedly I’m not as into origami as my son, in fact lately I’ve been avoiding it like the plague since my son decided to use origami crafting for his economics project (I guess they teach economics in elementary school now). But I really enjoyed the Star Wars origami book, as well as Tom Angleberger’s Origami Yoda series, so I decided to give this book a shot.
The book claims to have projects of varying degrees of difficulty, and while I agree that there are projects for both beginner and advanced skills, I felt like some of the easier projects were put in because they were easy and not necessarily because they fit with the DC theme. For example the “easy” projects in the Batman chapter included the Penguin’s umbrella and the Riddler’s walking stick, and while both items are representative of said characters, if the projects were taken out of context they are just an umbrella and walking stick without anything else to tie them to the characters they are supposed to represent.
The projects on the difficult side are challenging and visually pleasing. I really liked the Batwing, after I was finally able to finish it. It was a bit more difficult to put together than I initially thought, but the end result was cool to look at. My favorite projects were from the Wonder Woman and Justice League chapters because they could be used for dress-up. Who wouldn’t want their very own Green Arrow hat or Wonder Woman tiara?
My son, on the other hand, was less impressed. Like me, he enjoyed the projects in the Justice League chapter and he had a blast making a hundred maces and swords. But he wasn’t impressed with all the preprinted character sheets, and after putting together Clay Face, he abandoned the rest of them. He was more interested in the creative or functional projects.
I’m giving this book a low 3. It was fun and creative, but the novelty of it wore off fairly quickly in our house. I think this is a fun activity book for families with younger children (ages 4-7) or for fans of the DC Universe (Disclosure: The Latte-Books Family do appreciate the DC Universe, but are hardcore Marvel fans).
**NetGalley provided me with an advance reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.**
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