Origami: How to fold a Tangerine

Winter is the best season for tangerines, isn’t it?★

I bet you realize that winter has come,

when you eat them at a Kotatsu (a table over an electric heater).

Let’s try to fold a sweet and delicious tangerine with origami paper!

If you also fold a rice cake,

they will be “Kagami-mochi” (round rice-cake with a tangerine on top),

which is a necessary item on New Year’s Day.♥

Why don’t you spend the New Year’s Day with origami “Kagami-mochi”?

How to fold a tangerine ver.1

1. Fold it in half.

2. Fold it in half again.

3. Open it up all the way.

4. Fold all the corners toward the middle, like the picture below.

5. Flip it over, put the calyx, and it’s done!

How to fold a tangerine ver.2

1. Fold it in half.

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

3. Fold it in half.

4. Fold it in half again.

5. Go back to No.3, and fold both bottom corners up to the middle crease.

6. Open the bag part and fold it like the picture below.

7. Turn it over and do the same thing for the other side too.

8. It will be like the picture below.

9. Open it up.

10. Change the direction and fold it like the picture below.

11. Do the same thing for the other side too, like the picture below.

12. Open the bag parts and fold them to make squares, like the picture below.

13. Do the same thing for the other side too.

14. Fold all four corners to outside so that white back parts can be seen.

And fold all four corners of the outside behind, like the picture below.

15. Draw green on four corners in the middle like the picture below,

and it’s done!

16. If you open each bag part, it looks exactly like the pealed tangerine.

How to fold a tangerine ver.3

1. Fold it like the picture below.

2. Fold the bottom part up along the dotted line.

3. Fold both sides to inside, along the dotted lines.

4. Fold the top part to inside, along the dotted line.

5. Fold all four corners to inside, like the picture below.

6. Flip it over, draw the calix and it’s done!

You can fold the corners freely in Ver.1’s tangerine.

You can fold various shaped tangerines such as round and big ones,

or flat ones, depends on how you fold.★

It’s interesting to see the pealed tangerine

when you open the bag parts, isn’t it?

It might be a good idea to draw on the white back parts inside too.♪

Also, you can change the width

when you fold it in No.1 of the third tangerine too.

Try various shaped tangerines.♥

【Translated by　 Kana Toda PIERCE】