How To : Origami a pretty little lily
Why wait for spring to create a lovely, colorful bouquet? These lilies can be made anytime, and they'll never need watering.
Why wait for spring to create a lovely, colorful bouquet? These lilies can be made anytime, and they'll never need watering.
Ana Maria, an art student and origami expert, delicately explains and exhibits how to fold an origami cicada. The only material required is a perfectly square piece of paper, which is also known as origami paper. There are only seven easy steps or folds to create the paper-cra ...more
In these videos, you will get an introduction to the art of origami. Origami, a form of visual representation defined by the folding of paper, originated in Japan in the 1600s. Part 1 of 13 - How to Origami paper. Origami paper - Part 2 of 13. Click through to watch this video ...more
Learn how to make a printing paper origami fly tutorial. Video: . Design & Tutorial by Ventsislav Vasilev (Origamite) Diagram: http://goo.gl/Myzsgb Background Music: Rue's Whistle Song (Hunger Games) performed by Teofila Vasileva (piano) What do you need: One printing paper ...more
Is your origami aquarium all washed up? Well, with this video, you can learn to fold your very own origami Angelfish. This fish will surely bring some life back into your aquatic paper environment.
Learn this easy origami project and use a square piece of paper to make a traditional bird with flapping wings.
Learn how to make an origami heart. Use a medium square of paper to make your origami heart.
These step by step instructions help you to fold your own origami catamaran. Perfect for beginners.
The people from watchmojo.com teach you how to make an origami balloon. Part 1 of 2 - How to Origami a cute balloon. Part 2 of 2 - How to Origami a cute balloon.
These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a whale Japanese style. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper whale. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional ori ...more
In observance of the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and participation in The September Project, www.theseptemberproject.org, the Plainfield Guilford Township Public Library in Plainfield, Indiana is putting together a peace crane display. This video demonstrates how to make an orig ...more
These step by step instructions help you to fold your own origami drinking cup. Perfect for beginners.
Origami flowers are mighty fun to make with folded paper. This origami video will teach you how you can make a simple tulip.
These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a fukusuke Japanese style. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper fukusuke. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instruction ...more
Today we will explore the fascinating ancient art of origami. We take you through some simple steps to get you started on your first piece, an origami pig. Origami a standing pig. Click through to watch this video on videojug.com
These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a the letter "Q". Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own "Q". Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional origami video if ...more
Check out this video to learn how to fold a yellow origami flower. It's pretty cool looking.
Being able to fold paper into different shapes and animals is a great way to relax. It requires time and patience to make something that is beautiful to look at and sometimes fun to play with. In this tutorial, you'll find out how to origami a cool looking flapping bird in a s ...more
Origami is the art of folding paper, and it has been around for many years. This sequence of two videos from watchmojo.com will teach you to fold an origami paper crane. Part 1 of 2 - How to Origami a pretty paper crane. Origami a pretty paper crane - Part 2 of 2. Click throug ...more
These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a paper Hikoboshi and Orihime Japanese style. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper Hikoboshi and Orihime. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You c ...more
This video tutorial is in the Arts & Crafts category which will show you how to fold an Origami bell flower. Take a square piece of paper and fold it to make a rectangle. Crease, unfold, fold it in the other direction and unfold. Now fold it in half to make a triangle, unfold ...more
Learn how to make an origami crane with expert tips on folding origami animals in this free video series on the ancient Japanese art of origami. Part 1 of 4 - How to Origami a crane. Origami a crane - Part 2 of 4. Click through to watch this video on expertvillage.com Origami ...more
Today we will explore the fascinating ancient art of origami. We take you through some simple steps to get you started on your first piece, an origami swan. Origami a super simple swan. Click through to watch this video on videojug.com
This video was about how to create an origami rice ball. First, take a piece of square paper and turn it so that the corners are in the form of a compass. Now fold the paper's top corner and bring it towards the bottom. Then unfold it and fold the left edge to to right edge. N ...more
Origami is a great craft project to do with your children. Watch how to make an adorable origami goldfish with a piece of paper and a pair of scissors.
Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding to make just about any shape imaginable. All you need is a square of paper. Watch this video origami tutorial and learn how to fold a paper cicada.
Every origami enthusiast should know how to fold a variety of birds. This video will teach you to fold an origami duck.
Another version of the flapping bird. This version is a stop frame animation put to music. At the very end the 'hands' show up to show you how to make the bird flap.
Calling all origami masters! Add one more impressive project to your resume with help from this video! Learn how to fold an impressive paper crane using the power of origami!
This is a video tutorial in the Arts & Crafts category where you are going to learn how to fold an origami bird parent and child. Take a sheet of square paper and fold it in half diagonally. Then fold it again. Now open up the top half and fold it back over itself. Repeat this ...more
Everyone knows how to make paper snowflakes, but the kind you learned to cut in kindergarten can get a little boring. However, they are free DIY holiday decorations, and they don't have to be a generic snowflake design. They can be anything you want, from nerdy math kirigami t ...more
We've all attempted to fold a paper airplane before, right? One we hoped would sail majestically through the air for a good while but just ended up nose-diving into the grass. Paper planes, an invention likely as old as paper, are models of engineering; and they must account f ...more
In this article you will learn how to understand written origami instructions, called diagrams. You can follow the video below or read the entire article Video: . History of Origami-Diagramming While many do not realize, the now accepted system of explaining how to fold origa ...more
If you've run out of time for all of our more time-consuming Halloween costume ideas, here are some places on the web for free, downloadable paper masks. There must be at least 100 options among these links to satisfy your last-minute costume needs! Just download, print, and c ...more
Watch this video and see how easy it is to make this paper toy. It looks like an origami flower, but it is a tad more complex. Have fun playing with it.
Halloween night for most people with kids means tons of candy. That translates into tons of trash from candy wrappers. But even though you probably wouldn't think it, there's no shortage of alternative uses for those wrappers, from clothing and accessories to home decor. This ...more
Americans consume over 1.2 billion pounds of potato chips each year, making it one of the most popular snack foods in the United States. If the entire population were addicted, it'd be about 4 pounds per person each year. Not everyone does, though, so it'd be more realistic t ...more
This aircraft origami masterpiece is a JKF-18 Hornet, which is modeled after the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet] supersonic fighter jet used by the United States Navy and Marine Corps, along with the Royal Australian Air Force and Spanish Air Force. It's a fantastic plane—but ...more
For your next dinner party, impress your guests with some intricate-looking, but actually super-easy, napkin origami when you're setting up the table. The rosette fold is ridiculously easy and would probably work well for a Mother's Day brunch or an outdoor garden party. Simp ...more
For origami lovers, watch this how-to video to learn how easy it is to make beautiful and colorful paper flowers. Follow along with the demonstrations, and give it a hand yourself. It's not traditional origami, because you'll need scissors. Watch this video tutorial and learn ...more
The next time you go out for sushi with friends, impress your company by fashioning your own chopstick rest using the paper wrapper the wooden chopsticks come in. Keeping the ends of your chopstick off the table surface makes for good hygiene (who knows when was the last time ...more
It's Monday, which means once again, it's time to highlight some of the recent community submissions posted to the Math Craft corkboard. I also thought that we'd try and create something known as an "Orderly Tangle" or "Polylink". This week we had a few submissions based off ...more
The new iOS 14 for iPhone arrived Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2020, alongside iPadOS 14, and there are a lot of features to uncover. Improved widgets. Better home screen customization. Exciting Messages improvements. New abilities in Camera and Photos. There's so much here that it'll ...more
You may frequent hotels that treat your towels like your toilet paper, but some upscale hotels take pride in their towel presentation; therefore, they borrow some skills from master origami artists and apply them to folding towels and washcloths for memorable and decorative ef ...more
We've all made them. I remember making hundreds of paper snowflakes when I was in elementary school. You take a piece of paper and fold it in half, then fold it in half again. You now have a piece that is one fourth the size of the original. Now you fold it in half diagonally. ...more
You've got a great gift for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day. Awesome. Now, how are you going to present that lovely gift of yours? Wrapping paper? Cardboard box? Decorative bag? If any of those things are your answer—you're not trying hard enough. If you've got a small gif ...more
The concept and structure of Christmas hasn't changed much since its inception. In its infancy, Christians recruited Roman pagans by associating Christmas with the Saturnalia, an ancient Roman festival in honor of the deity Saturn (also held in December). The pagans had long w ...more
Want to give a special someone your heart (and get rid of junk mail in the process)? Make a paper heart using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. This free origami video lesson presents complete instructions on how to make your own paper hearts from a ...more
There's nothing worst than throwing a party without any music. That's like having watching the Super Bowl without any chips or beers...lame. While having a huge stereo system or set of portable speakers is a plausible solution, sometimes you find yourself without either of th ...more
Math Craft admin Cory Poole provided quite a few recipes for sonobe models in his blog, and I followed one to make the pentakis dodecahedron here. I wasn't that happy with my first result because the colours kept on coming out wrong—i.e. two of the same colour next to each ot ...more
So, the in-person conversations between you and your friends has slowed down to a near halt, thanks to everyone's obsession with texting, Facebook, and over-uploading pics to Instagram—socializing at its best. It could also be that you're just not interesting enough anymore in ...more
It's Monday, which means once again, it's time to highlight some of the most recent community submissions posted to the Math Craft corkboard. I also thought we'd take a look at building a sliceform model of a hyperbolic paraboloid. Rachel Mansur put up two posts on her Modula ...more
Make your own tiny katana out of paper! All you'll need is some durable printer paper or origami paper, double-sided photo album squares, quick drying craft glue, a small craft knife (like an x-acto knife), a straight edge and a cutting mat. Part 1 of 6 - How to Make a tiny Ja ...more
Sometimes the idea of cooking fish, especially for a group of guests, can be intimidating. There's the fear of the fish not cooking right, or sticking to the pan or grill. And even if you cook it right and the fish doesn't stick, you're left with the inevitable fishy-smelling ...more
If you love origami you'll love this project. Watch this video and see how simple and quick it is to make a 3D paper star.
This unbelievable paper craft toy is made of triangles and tape. Unlike origami, it has hinges and can transform to form many different 3D objects.
There are a million things you can do with a few sheets of paper, from classics like an origami crane to a paper version of PSY that dances Gangnam Style, or even an M16 assault rifle. There's not much you can't make with paper. If you're looking for something a little simple ...more
Have a love of money and crafts? With this guide, you'll learn how to make a heart-shaped money ring from a dollar bill with origami, the traditional art of Japanese paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to ge ...more
For origami lovers, learn how easy it is to make this twisting and jumping paper toy.
Richard Sweeney is an incredible artist whose body of work consists mainly of sculptures made from paper. His art is often related to origami, and much of his work is related to geometrical forms. I personally really love his modular forms in paper. Many of them are based off ...more