How to Origami

Paul Jackson demonstrates how to make the Jackson cube. You will have two lines on the paper, but you should only use one as a reference. You must remember symmetry.

Watch quickly as this video demonstrates the squash fold. Starting with as square base, the creator shows you how to perform this basic fold.

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a the letter "W". Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own "W". Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional origami video if ...more

An origami slave isn't going to start doing chores or going to work for you, but you can always pretend. Start out with a frog base, and note that foil paper works best. Learn how to fold an origami slave by watching this video tutorial.

Joost Fangeveld demonstrates how to fold an origami fish. You can download the design he uses for free on his website.

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a paper strawberry shortcake Japanese style. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper strawberry shortcake. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can ...more

Fold an origami flower with a stamen. The design is by Joost Langeveld. Start with an unequal basic shape in order to get petals of different sizes.

Got a little bit of spare time and a sheet of paper? Make a jumping paper frog with origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. This free origami video lesson presents a complete instructions on how to make your own leaping paper amphibians from folded paper. ...more

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a the letter "E". Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own "E". Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional origami video if ...more

Learn how to make an origami box with flaps. It looks kind of like a flapping crane without the crane part.

Review these simple steps to fold your own origami fancy box. These visual guidelines will help you through some of the more difficult folds, but you may want to look at an instruction booklet as well. There are many versions of the traditional Japanese origami fancy box.

This video shows how to fold a simple origami butterfly. It's a great model for beginners.

Make a bouquet of origami flowers with an explanation of how to fold a stem that is made of paper.

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a paper tshirt. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper tee. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional origami video ...more

The dog is man's best friend. With this demonstrational video, you can learn to fold your own origami dog. Maybe now you'll finally have a friend.

In this video you can learn how to make an easy origami fortune teller. Fold an 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheet of paper into a triangle shape. There will be a strip of paper left at the bottom of the paper after completing this step. Cut off this strip of paper and discard it. Open th ...more

This video shows you how to fold paper into a camel. There are a series of close ups that show important folds and unfolds along the way.

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a paper table Japanese style. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper table. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instruction ...more

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a the letter "Z". Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own "Z". Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional origami video if ...more

Fold a grape hyacinth designed by Joost Langeveld. This is for the stem.

This video demonstrates how to fold the origami model "Snail" that Shiri Daniel designed. Shiri kindly gave me permission to make this video accessible to you. This is a two part sequence. Part 1 of 2 - How to Origami a little snail. Part 2 of 2 - How to Origami a little snail.

This video origami tutorial shows how to use the traditional Japanese art of paper folding to make a box. Follow along and fold your own little origami box.

Learn how to fold this devishly cute frog and make it jump to your heart's content. This project is good for a beginner who is new to origami. and wants to learn the basics.

This origami video tutorial will show you how to make an origami paper bird and tree. First, fold the square piece of paper in half diagonally. Then fold the paper in half again. Now, fold it in half and open the last fold back up. The flap that is unfolded now is the one that ...more

Charles Esseltine shows you how to fold a star out of paper. Diagrams can be found on this website: http://web.archive.org/web/20060330001742/www.anniefolds.com/TSUstepfolds.htm

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a paper sumo stage Japanese style. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper sumo stage. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the i ...more

These step by step instructions help you to fold your own origami flower - a lily or iris. Perfect for beginners.

Watch this instructional origami video to fold an origami seal. First, you need to fold a fish base. These visual guidelines will help you on some of the more difficult folds. When complete, this origami seal should be able to stand on it's own.

Check out this video to learn how to origami a flower with three petals. It's quite delicate looking.

Narrated steps for folding the Lori Note Fold.

Check out this video to learn how to origami a box in a box.

Land ho! Well matey, time to fold yourself a vessel and head out on the seven seas! This cleaver little video shows how to fold a spiffy little origami sailboat. Clear and easy instructions show you where to bend that paper so you'll be ready get sailing today!

The people from openorigami.net demonstrate how to make an origami sailfish.

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a paper steamship Japanese style. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper steamship. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the ins ...more

Love candy and easy craft projects? Make a paper sweets box 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 candy dish from folded paper. For more information, and to ...more

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a flapping paper bird Japanese style. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own flapping paper bird. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up ...more

Check out this video to learn how to origami an easy mennorode star.

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a Japanese toothpick case. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own toothpick case. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instruction ...more

How to make a $2 bill man. No narration but very good written instructions. Cute trick to do for friends and family. Origami a $2 bill man. Click through to watch this video on livevideo.com

This tutorial has been inspired by the character Piglet, from the Winnie the Pooh books. You'll need to have mastered the basic triangle folding techniques for 3-D origami, and, of course, have lots of pink paper to make this project! Part 1 of 2 - How to Make a little paper p ...more

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a triangular paper photo frame. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own photo frame. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructi ...more

Grow your paper menagerie as well and your knowledge of origami. This video tutorial presents a complete, step-by-step overview of how to make a simple jumping paper frog toy using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For more information, and to get st ...more

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a paper butterfly Japanese style. Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own paper butterfly. Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the ins ...more

In this video you will learn how to fold a pinwheel hexahedron, which is a triangular figure with 6 sides. Enjoy! Wheew hexahedron!

The people from openorigami.net demonstrate how to make an origami ray fish.

Want to give someone your heart and win theirs in the process? Have some spare paper and time to match? This free origami video lesson presents complete instructions on how to make your own hearts from a sheet of folded paper. For more information, and to get started making pa ...more

Check out this video to learn how to fold an origami penguin. Enjoy and keep on folding!

Follow the instructions in this video to fold your own traditional origami box. These visual guidelines will help you through some of the more difficult folds. When you finished folding, you can keep paper clips in this traditional Japanese origami box.

These instructional animated slides teach you how to easily fold a the letter "L". Learn how to use the Japanese art of origami to make your own "L". Use the start, stop, forward and back buttons to easily follow along. You can also speed up the instructional origami video if ...more

These step by step instructions help you to fold your own origami box or balloon. Perfect for beginners.

Origami can seem like magic sometimes, but in reality, it's just really cool paper folding. And every origami sorcerer should know how to fold their own origami sorcerer. This tutorial video will show you how to make your very own folded paper wizard.

Kids will enjoy folding this cute origami elephant with Tilly.

Even origami veterans who can pull off 18-sided modular origami balls had to start somewhere. If you're interested in becoming a legendary origami master, begin with this simple project. Press play to learn how to whip up a basic origami jumping frog.

Is your dad's favorite pastime taking his boat out from the dock at Marina del Ray and just sailing into the sunset, staying out on the broad ocean for hours at a time? Then he will most definitely dig your gift for him this Father's Day when you create these adorable origami ...more

This is the procedure for making two origami bears using a square sheet of paper. For this we need a square sheet of paper with one colored side and the other can be white. The steps are: • Take the square sheet of paper and place it (color side down) in such way that two of ...more

Instructions for how to make Crowding Butterflies, an origami tessellation design by Shuzo Fujimoto. You can download the crease pattern with instructions for the pre-creasing part of this video from www.marigami.com. The pre-creasing is easy so this video moves quickly throug ...more

So, you're great at origami, but you have no place to put all those folded paper cranes and fish? Fear not, for this origami video will teach you how you can fold your very own paper box, which will hold anything from cranes to crayons.

Learn to make an origami angelfish. You need just one square of paper to make your origami angelfish.

Check out this video to learn how to origami a small yellow flower with a purple dot in the center (of course, you have to have the right paper).