Origami toys are a fun and inexpensive way to provide toys for your children if you are on a tight budget. It is also a great way create decorations for a child’s theme birthday party, as an addition to a costume or as props for a school play.

Children love weapons, even though we may not like the idea of them playing with weapons, origami weapons can replace those dollar store plastic ones with a less dangerous form by using paper. There are various designs for swords, throwing stars and the like. The best thing, the most damage they can inflict is a paper cut.

Another great thing about making toys out of paper is the fact that they can use scraps of paper and recycle it into something they will play with for hours on end. You could even host an origami party where your children and their friends could sit around creating their very own play weapons or other such toys.

Origami animals are great fun for little kids to play with to pretend they are at a zoo. Flowers and the like would keep little girls entertained as well as keep their creative minds sharp. Girls could also dabble in making origami jewelry.

Remember those little games you had as a child where you folded up a piece of paper that had funny little sayings on them under a flap labeled with a number? You would place the paper over your fingers and another child would pick a number making you move your fingers in and out until that number was reached and then read what was under the flap. That little piece of paper is origami and loads of fun to play.

The toys you can make out of just plain old paper will astound you, everything from jumping frogs to party hats. This is a great way to keep occupied and spark their creative juices. Purchase all kinds of different colored paper and watch them go to town. You could even have them use aluminum foil; it’s extremely easy to fold and looks cool when folded into a design.