Make origami as a gift

Origami is the art of folding various shapes out of paper. As a rule, glue is not used in these handicrafts. If you develop the ability to handle paper, you can make a gift for any occasion. How to start and how to make a more complex modular origami?

Before you create a simple or more complex masterpiece, You need to purchase some items.

1. White and multi-colored paper. To make a postcard or figure of origami, you better use different sheets of paper. The product itself can be monophonic, but from above it can be decorated with appliqués: circles, stripes, small squares, cut from paper of a different color.
2. Sharp scissors. For different types of origami used paper of different shapes. Both a square and a rectangle can serve as raw material for your surprise. Therefore, it is better to immediately acquire high-quality scissors to cut the necessary shapes with them.
3. Ruler and simple pencil. With these tools, you just measure the lengths you need to get a rectangle or square.

To make a box of paper into which you can put a little surprise, you will need a square. You have to choose its size yourself: the larger the side of the square, the larger the box will be. Now we will tell you how to make this origami step by step.

1. Fold the square in half, and then again in half.
2. Turn the square back and place it inside up. This is true if you are using paper that is colored on one side only. Bend the corners of the square to the center. It is clearly visible due to the previous folds. It turned out a small square.
3. Bend the edges of the square to its center and turn it back. This must be done to create the fold lines that will be needed later. Repeat this action from the perpendicular sides.
4. Bend the two opposite corners from the center. It turned out a kind of "candy" in appearance.
5. Now the side faces of this candy, too, bend to the middle.
6. Now look closely at the diagram: you need to perform two actions at the same time. Turn out the box from the inside and bend its edges to the center. It is quite difficult for a beginner, but you can handle it.
7. Fold the other side edge to the center of the already half-formed box.
8. Repeat the action from the opposite side. The box is ready!
9. You can make the second box a little larger, and it will serve as a lid. Then you will have the opportunity to hide a cute surprise in it.

Flowers are one of the most popular origami figures. Paper can be folded and lilies, and roses, and tulips. They can decorate a bag, a postcard or a box with a gift. To comprehend this art is better from simple to complex, so we will show and tell you how to make a cute decoration in the form of a paper bell. Make it completely easy. Just stick with the following algorithm.

1. Take a blue square piece of paper and fold it diagonally.
2. Turn the edges of the resulting triangle to the middle. Visually get a diamond. Turn the diamond face down.
3. Roll up the corners, as shown in the figure.
4. Turn the figure back - it turned out the bell.
5. Now let's do the leaves. Take another green square.
6. Bend it diagonally. Expand and press the edges to the resulting fold line.
7. The lower, shorter edges also bend to the centerline.
8. Expand the figure - on the back side there is a smooth beautiful rhombus, a future leaf.

Modularly origami has recently gained a lot of popularity. And this is not surprising, since small elements are not difficult to fold. And large figures are also quite easy to obtain, having assembled them from small modules, as a designer. Modules come in different shapes, but most often they use triangular ones. They can be folded in several ways. Let us analyze the scheme of the triangular module.

1. Take a rectangular piece of paper and fold it 2 times in half.
2. Expand the rectangles once and fold its edges to the center, as shown in the figure.
3. Turn the figure over.
4. Two protruding edges fold to the edge of the upper triangle, and then bend them completely.
5. Fold in half the resulting module - it is ready!

Modules make real works of art: different types of animals and birds, dragons, as well as various boxes and candy boxes. Even without a scheme, you can perform triangular colorful fish, such as in the figure.

Even without a scheme, you can perform triangular colorful fish, such as in the figure.

To make smooth bends, for example, for constructing birds, you can use the method of so-called wet modular origami. For this paper modules are sprinkled with water and bend them at the right angles.

Finally I would like to give a few recommendations for those who is just starting his journey into the world of origami.

1. For any origami, even classical, modular though, it is better to use double-sided thick paper. It folds better, holds its shape well and will not tear if you accidentally pull it in the wrong direction.
2. Follow the instructions carefully and try to bend the paper as smoothly as possible at each stage. The curvature initially pulls the subsequent asymmetry.
3. Start with simple models, since you need to get a hand and learn how to read diagrams. Leave too complicated origami for later.

How to make a lily in the technique of origami, see the video below.