Origami: How to fold a House

We can easily fold pretty houses with origami paper.★

Let’s fold them so that the colored side will be the roof.

It’ll be more like a house, if you draw windows or doors.

Also, it will be interesting if you draw some food or flowers so that they’ll be like shops!

It’ll even more fashionable, if you write some message on it too. ♪

How to fold a House   ver1

１．First, fold it in half.

２．Again, fold it in half.

３．Open it all the way, and fold the top part down to the middle crease

that you made, like the picture below.

４．Turn it over and fold the other (bottom) side up to the middle crease

that you made, like the picture below.

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

６．Fold both sides toward the inside, along the black lines shown

in the picture below.

７．It will be like the picture below.

８．Flip it over, and it’s done!

How to fold a House   ver2

１．Fold it in half.

２．Fold it in half again.

３．Open it up all the way, and fold the top part to the middle crease

that you made, like the picture below.

４．Turn it over and fold both sides to the middle crease that you made,

like the picture below.

５．Fold both corners down 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 a House   ver3

１．Fold it in half.

２．Fold it in half again.

３．Open it up all the way,

and fold the top part down to the middle crease that you made,

like the picture below.

４．Turn it over and fold both sides to the middle crease that you made,

like the picture below.

５．Fold both corners down along the black lines shown in the picture below.

６．Fold the bottom part up along the black line shown in the picture below.

７．Fold two corners toward the inside along the black lines shown

in the picture below.

８．Put them back after making the creases.

９．Open the bottom part and fold it along the crease that you made in No.7,

like the picture below.

１０．Fold the bottom part behind along the black line shown in the picture below.

１１．It will be like the picture below.

１２．Flip it over, and it’s done!

When you make a house of ver1,

you can change the shape of the roof by changing the angle

(when you fold them along the black lines),

so enjoy various types of houses. ♥

It will be more like a real house, if you add the chimney made

with a sheet of drawing paper.

They’ll be prettier if you could also draw some patterns

or putting some stickers on the roof.

If you write some messages inside of the roof,

it will be as good as the letter too!

Why don’t you enjoy folding various kinds of houses, since they’re so easy to fold? ♪

【Translated by　 Kana Toda PIERCE】