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The website of
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| Active Play Designs |
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play origami is the design and
realisation of origami toys which change their shape when
played with. Active play origami designs are often also
referred to as action folds. |
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Name: Dogfish
- minimalist double-image / active play
design. Paper type / shape: Square /
Irogami.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1997
Reference:
140
Diagrams:
BOM 184 June 1997 // Origami - Barnes and Noble -
ISBN 0-7607-3331-7 // Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Fiddler
- endlessly revolving flexible toy made
from a 2x1 rectangle using cuts and glue. Paper type / shape:
Square / Homogeneous paper
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1997
Reference:
141
Diagrams:
BOM 186 October 1997
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Name: Flapping
Dove Paper type / shape: Square / Any
kind of paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2009
Reference:
326
Diagrams:
Kid-O-Gami - Sandy Creek - David Mitchell - ISBN
978-1-4351-2338-0 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Flapping
Parrot Paper type / shape: Square / Any
kind of paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2007
Reference:
315
Diagrams:
Complete Origami - Collins and Brown - David
Mitchell - ISBN 978-1-84340-397-5 // Rencontres
de Mai 2009 - MFPP - Paris // On-line diagrams
are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Frog
Eat Frog - cut and fold design.
Adaptation of a Paul Jackson design (which was
itself an adaptation of a Robert E Neale
original). Frog Eat Frog Eat Frog is also
possible. Paper type / shape: A4 or similar
rectangle / Homogeneous paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2005
Reference:
278
Diagrams:
Office Origami - Adam Russ - Universe Publishing
- ISBN 0-7893-1313-8 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Hip
Hop - action toy. Paper type / shape:
Square / Homogeneous paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1991
Reference:
077
Diagrams:
BOS Convention Pack Autumn 1991
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Name: Holy
Ghost - an active play origamidada
design. Paper type / shape: Square /
Homogeneous paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2002
Reference:
245
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Hull
Down - minimalist seascape / active play
paperfold. Paper shape / type: 4x1 rectangle /
Irogami.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1993
Reference:
101
Diagrams:
Origami Alfresco - Water Trade - ISBN
0-9534774-3-6 // Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Kamikaze
- adaptation of the traditional business
card jumping frog design so that it works from
ordinary square origami paper. Paper type / shape:
Square / Any kind of paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2012
Reference:
340
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Mr
Yapper - double action design from a
blintzed bird base. Paper type / shape:
Square / Any kind of paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1987
Reference:
008
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: Naive
Butterfly - naive active play design. Paper type / shape:
2x squares of any kind of paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1992
Reference:
552
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Multiple Sheet
Designs page of this site.
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Name: Piranha
- biting action toy from the windmill base that
can be used to demonstrate catastrophe theory. Paper type / shape:
Square / Any kind of paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1993
Reference:
103
Diagrams:
Complete Origami - Collins and Brown - David
Mitchell - ISBN 978-1-84340-397-5 // On-line
diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Shark
Attack - simple seascape / double image
/ active play design. Paper type / shape:
Square / Irogami.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2000
Reference:
219
Diagrams:
Origami Alfresco - Water Trade - ISBN
0-9534774-3-6 // Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Snap
Dragon - variation of a jumping design
by Dorothy Engleman. Paper type / shape:
File card
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2005
Reference:
294
Diagrams:
Office Origami - Adam Russ - Universe Publishing
- ISBN 0-7893-1313-8
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Name: Whippersnapper
- scissor action snapping toy from a fish base. Paper type / shape:
Square / Any kind of paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1987
Reference:
011
Diagrams:
Origami - Barnes and Noble - ISBN 0-7607-3331-7
// On-line diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Woodpecker
- simple action toy - adaptation of Paul
Jackson's fold of the same name. Paper type / shape:
Square / Any kind of paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1988
Reference:
033
Diagrams:
BOS Convention Pack Spring 1989 // Origami
Animals - Greenwich Editions - David Mitchell -
ISBN 1-86288-770-4.
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