Origami: How to fold a Bagworm

We can see some little bagworm when the winter comes.★

They look so warm being in their houses made out of straw rain-cape, don’t they?

We can make a cute bagworm with its face sticking out

from the straw rain-cape too.♥

You can feel autumn, making them with your children!

How to fold a bagworm   ver1

1. First, get a sheet of half-cut origami paper ready.

2. Fold it in half.

3. Fold it in half again.

4. Open it up all the way and fold it to the crease.

5. Open it up and fold it to the crease that you made in No.4.

6. Fold the other side to the crease too.

7. Fold both sides to the middle crease.

8. Fold all corners to the crease.

9. Flip it over, draw a face, and it’s done!

How to fold a bagworm   ver2

1. Fold it in half.

2. Fold both corners up to the crease.

3. Turn it over and fold both sides to the middle.

4. Pull both sides out, like the picture below.

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

6. Fold the part that you folded No.5 to outside, like the picture below.

7. Fold it along the dotted line.

8. Draw a face, and it’s done!

How to fold a bagworm   ver3

1. Fold it in half.

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

3. Fold both sides to the crease again, like the picture below.

4. Turn it over and fold both sides to the middle crease.

5. Fold the right part up, along the dotted line.

6. Fold it up again, along the dotted line.

7. Fold all corners toward inside, along the dotted lines.

8. It will be like the picture below.  Turn it over.

9. Change the direction, and it’s done!

Make sure you cut the paper in half and start folding in Ver1 of the bagworm.★

You can change the width of the face,

if you fold it freely without using the creases.

Then you will see various types of bagworms!

For example, you can fold the bagworms with various expressions

that sticks its face out all the way, or the one that sticks only its eyes out.♥

In ver3 of the bagworm,

you can put some leaves that you can make with a poster board

on the straw rain-cape and make a cute bagworm too!

If you connect some of the bagworms with thread,

they will be more realistic! ♪

Why don’t you decorate them in your room?

【Translated by　 Kana Toda PIERCE】