Origami: How to fold Nebuta (Youkai Watch)

If you are obsessed by it, you will just fall asleep…

 Maybe everybody is obsessed

by this monster, Nebuta (a sleeping pig) every morning?

Zzzz… Zzzz… Don’t go back to sleep again!♪

Origami 【Youkai Watch】 How to fold Nebuta Ver.1

１．Fold it in half to make a triangle.

２．Fold both sides along the red dotted line,

according to the intervals in the picture below.

３．Fold both sides along the red dotted line,

according to the intervals in the picture below.

４．Change the direction.

５．Fold the bottom corner up along the dotted line.

６．Turn it over.

７．Draw a face, put a hat and it’s done!

Origami 【Youkai Watch】 How to fold Nebuta Ver.2

１．Fold it in half to make a crease.

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

２．Open it up.

３．Fold both sides of the opposite side to the middle crease too.

４．Fold both sides along the creases that you made.

５．Fold both corners (top and bottom) so that each corner’s back

will meet each other.

６．Cut it along the line with scissors.

７．Put the bottom part back, opening it up.

８．Fold a small corner at the middle along the dotted line,

open it up and fold it as if you smash it, as picture No.9 shows.

９．Fold the smashed part toward outside along the dotted line,

as picture No.10 shows.

１０．Do the same thing for the other small corner too.

１１．Fold the bottom corner up along the dotted line.

１２．Fold it down along the dotted line.

１３．Change the direction to upside down.

１４．Fold the bottom corner up along the dotted line,

like you did for the other side.

１５．Fold it down along the dotted line.

１６．Fold the bottom corner along the dotted line.

１７．Turn it over.

１８．Fold the bottom corner up along the dotted line.

１９．Fold it up along the dotted line again.

２０．Draw a face, adjust it well and it’s done!

“Time to wake up!!!!”

“I… I’m obsessed with Nebuta….”

Can you hear a conversation like that?★

【Translated by　 Kana Toda PIERCE】