Origami: How to fold an Egg

Why don’t we fold a cute, small and lightly rolling egg with origami paper?♥

I’ll show you how to fold an egg which you can play cracking with,

or the one which you can see a chick out of the shell too.

Easy to make!  Let’s make a lot of various types of egg!

How to fold an Egg 1   Egg with a shell

１．First, fold it in half.

２．Open it up and fold the bottom part up to the crease.

３．Fold it along the crease that you made in No.1.

４．Fold it in half like the picture below and make a crease.

５．Put it back and fold both sides to the crease that you made in No.4.

６．Fold four corners along the black lines shown in the picture below.

７．It will be like the picture below.

８．Flip it over.  The bottom shell is done!

９．Next, we’ll make the upper shell.

Fold the same way as the bottom shell until No.5 of this instruction.

１０．Fold four corners along the black lines shown in the picture below.

１１．It will be like the picture below.

１２．Flip it over and change the direction like the picture below.

The top shell is done!

１３．Insert both shells into the slits, and it’s done!

How to fold an Egg   ver2

１．Fold it in half.

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

３．Fold the top part to the end line like the picture below.

４．Fold the bottom part up to the same end line and change the direction like the picture below.

５．Fold four parts along the black lines shown in the picture below.

６．It will be like the picture below.

７．Flip it over, and it’s done!

How to fold an Egg 3   Egg and Chick

１．Fold it in half.

２．Fold it in half again.

３．Open the bag part and fold it to make a square like the picture below.

４．Fold the same way for the other side too.

５．Fold both sides to the crease, like the picture below.

６．Using the creases that you made, fold it like the picture below.

７．Change the direction, like the picture below.

８．Fold the bottom part up, like the picture below.

９．Turn it over and fold the first layer down, like the picture below.

１０．Fold both sides along the dotted lines shown in the picture below.

１１．Fold both sides behind along the dotted lines shown in the picture below.

１２．Fold the middle part down along the dotted line shown in the picture below.

１３．Fold it along the dotted lines shown in the picture below like a staircase.

１４．Fold the bottom part behind along the dotted line shown in the picture below.

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

It’s such a unique way of folding No.1 Egg,

since you can see the egg yolk when you crack the shell.

You can also play magic with it too.♪

You’ll enjoy No.1 Egg or Ver2 Egg, when you play a house too.

Arrange them prettier, drawing some patterns!

【Translated by　 Kana Toda PIERCE】