Origami: How to fold Ornaments for Star Festival

Today, I’ll show you how to fold some ornaments for star festival or some decorations

that you can put on a square piece of fancy paper.★

Folded origami paper themselves can easily fall down because they are light,

but if you put them on the fancy piece of paper,

they can be keep well and beautifully.

It’s easy since you can just put folded origami on the fancy piece of paper.　♪

How to fold a decoration to put on the fancy piece of paper 1 Cow’s decoration

1. Fold it in half and make a crease.

2. Fold the left part behind, at the 1/3 line from the middle.  Change the direction.

3. Fold both sides to the middle.

4. Fold both corners along the dotted lines.

5. Fold it along the dotted line and make a crease.

6. Change the direction and turn it over.

7. Fold it and make creases along the dotted lines.

Fold it, using the creases, as picture No.8 shows.

8. Fold it along the dotted line, as picture No.9 shows.

9. Fold it in half and turn it over.

10. Curve the right corner a little and put both corners inside, as picture No.11.

11. And it’s done!

How to fold a decoration to put on the fancy piece of paper 2 Chicken’s decoration

1. Get a half-cut paper ready.

Fold the right top corner to the 1/4 line of the paper, as picture No.2 shows.

2. Fold it along the dotted line.

3. Fold it and make creases along the dotted lines.

4. Cut it along the creases with scissors.

5. Make two more of this with origami paper with your favorite colors.

6. Put three of them all together.  Fold it along the dotted line.

7. Fold it in half, folding it along the dotted lines.

8. Fold it along the dotted line, as if you cover it.

9. Fold it again along the dotted line, as if you cover it.

10. Fold only the top sheet, along the dotted line, as if you cover it.

11. Fold and insert the second sheet into the slit between the first and second sheet.

12. Fold the last one like a staircase.

13. Lift it up.

14. Spread it, shifting a little.

15. And it’s done!

How to fold a decoration to put on the fancy piece of paper 3 Monkey’s decoration

1. Get a sheet of paper with 10 (length): 6 (width) ready.  Fold it in half.

2. Fold it in half again.

3. Put the corner of the bag part on the left top.

And cut it along the line with scissors.

Please be careful not to cut the wrong way.  Throw the right half away.

4. Fold it along the dotted line, opening the bag part.

5. Fold it and make creases along the dotted lines.

6. Fold it along the dotted lines.

7. Fold it the same way for the back side too.

8. Fold it down along the dotted line and change the direction to upside down.

9. Put them down.

10. Fold the both sides of the top sheet, along the dotted lines.

11. Fold the bottom sheets into the slit.

12. Fold them along the dotted lines and make creases.

Fold them inside, using the creases, as picture No.13 shows.

13. Fold them along the dotted lines.

14. The top part of the body is done!

15. Get the same size of sheet of paper ready.

Fold it the same way until No.7 of the top part of the body.

16. Fold both sides, along the dotted lines.

17. Fold it and make creases along the dotted lines.

Fold them inside, using the creases, as picture No.18 shows.

18. Fold them along the dotted lines.

19. The bottom part of the body is done!

Insert the top of the body into the bottom of the body.

20. Fold it along the dotted lines and make a face.

21. Fold hands.  Spread the head’s corner, folding it toward your side.

22. Put hands on the play around the eyes.

It looks as if it is saying “Shhhhh!  Don’t speak, it’s secret!”

The cow’s decoration can be used for the star festival too.

You can try various ways of making the chicken one,

by changing the color of the three sheets of paper,

changing the order to put them each other…♥

Even though it takes a lot of time to make the monkey one,

it really looks like a real monkey, doesn’t it?

You can also draw some pictures or words on the fancy piece of paper

with all these origami too.★

Try various colors or patterns, by changing origami paper!

【Translated by　 Kana Toda PIERCE】