Origami: How to fold a Swan

The swans we can see through autumn and winter look so beautiful, don’t they?

When the spring comes, a bevy of the swan sets out on another journey.

Why don’t you fold the origami swan and decorate it in your room?★

They’ll have a good atmosphere if you fold it with white paper.

Also, if you put them on drawing paper and draw something like a lake on it,

you’ll see the swans floating on the lake comfortably too.

Let’s try various types of swans.♪

How to fold a Swan   ver1

１．First, we’ll make a body part.  Fold it in half.

２．Open it up and fold both sides to the crease.

３．Fold the other both sides to the middle crease too.

４．Fold the same parts as No. 3 to the crease again, like the picture below.

５．Fold it in half to the back side.

６．Fold the tip down, like the picture below.

７．Fold it in half length way, like the picture below.

８．Pull it toward the arrow.

９．Pull it toward the arrow.

１０．It will be like the picture below.  And the body part is done!

１１．Next, we will make wings’ part.  Fold it in half.

１２．Fold it in half again.

１３．Go back to No.11 and fold both sides to the crease.

１４．Turn it over and fold both sides to the crease, like the picture below.

１５．Fold it in half toward the arrow.

１６．It will be like the picture below.  And the wings’ part is done!

１７．Insert the body part into the wings’ part

and put them together with something like glue.

１８．Adjust well, draw the face and it’s done!

How to fold a Swan 2   A Parent-Child Swan

１．Fold it in half.

２．Open it up and fold both sides to the crease.

３．Fold the other both sides to the crease too.

４．Fold it in half in length way.

５．Fold it along the dotted line, make a crease and put it back.

６．Fold it inside along the crease that you made in No.5, like the picture below.

７．Fold it along the dotted line.

８．Fold it along the dotted line, make a crease and put it back.

９．Fold it inside along the crease that you made in No.8, like the picture below.

１０．Fold it along the dotted line, make a crease, and put it back.

１１．Fold it inside along the crease that you made in No.10, like the picture below.

１２．Fold the tip to the right side along the dotted line.

１３．Fold the same tip to the left side along the red line.

１４．It will be like the picture below.

１５．Do the same thing for another tip too, like the picture below.

１６．Draw faces, and it’s done!

How to fold a Swan 3

１．Fold it in half.

２．Open it up and fold both sides to the crease.

３．Fold both corners up along the dotted lines.

４．It will be like the picture below.

５．Fold it in half.

６．Fold it along the dotted line, make a crease and put it back.

７．Fold it along the crease (outside reverse fold), like the picture below.

８．Fold the tip along the dotted line, make a crease and put it back.

９．Fold it along the crease (outside reverse fold), like the picture below.

１０．Fold the tip part along the red line like a staircase.

１１．Fold the right part along the dotted line, like a staircase.

１２．It will be like the picture below.  And it’s done!

In Ver1 Swan, the procedure No.6 (folding the tip down) will be the swan’s face.

The length of the face differs depends on the width that you fold,

so you can arrange it freely.♥

Also, fold it slowly so as not to tear up the paper in the procedure 8 and 9.

There are some tricky ways of folding in a Parent-Child Swan

but as long as you remember how to fold them, it’ll be easy.

So never give up and keep it up, ok?♪

【Translated by　 Kana Toda PIERCE】