Origami: How to fold a Box of the Girl’s Festival

I’ll show you how to make a box for hinagashi (snacks for Girl’s Festival in Japan).

The snacks that we eat on the Girl’s Festival day is “Hina-arare”, right?♥

It’s so good with its little sweet flavor, that we eat too much, don’t you?

If we eat them with some people, we have to get ready for the plates for them.

The boxes for those snacks, made with origami paper,

are pretty and useful, since you can throw them away after they are used.

Please make use of them.★

How to fold a Box of the Girl’s Festival 1   A box with some partitions

【Procedure of how to fold the origami】

1. Fold it in half twice and make creases, along the dotted lines.

2. Fold all four corners to the middle.

3. Turn it over.

4. Fold all four corners to the middle.

5. Turn it over.

6. Fold all the middle corners to outside, as picture No.7 shows.

7. Turn it over.

8. Fold them along the dotted lines.

9. Open it up and adjust it well.

10. And it’s done!

How to fold a Box of the Girl’s Festival 2   A box with some wings

【Procedure of how to fold the origami】

1. Fold it in half twice and make two creases, along the dotted lines.

2. Fold all four corners to the middle.

3. Turn it over.

4. Fold it in half.

5. Open the bag part and fold it to make a square.

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

7. Open the bag part from the middle, and fold it down,

as picture No.8 shows.

8. Move one layer to the left.

9. Fold both sides to the middle.

Fold them the same way for the other side too.

10. Fold the top part down.

Fold it the same way for the other side too.

11. Open it up and adjust it well.

12. And it’s done!

How to fold a Box of the Girl’s Festival 3   A cherry blossom shaped box

【Procedure of how to fold the origami】

1. Fold it in half and make a crease, along the dotted line.

2. Fold both sides to the middle.

3. Fold the bottom part up.

4. Open it up all the way.

5. Fold the bottom part up.

6. Fold it in half, as picture No.7 shows. (a mountain fold)

7. Fold it to let each line meet, as picture No.8 shows.

8. Fold it along the dotted line, and make a crease.

9. Open it up.

10. Fold it along the crease.

11. Fold the right part back to the left.

12. Open it from the right side and fold it, as if you smash the top part.

13. Fold it up, along the dotted line.

14. Fold it in half, pulling the top part out.

15. Fold it and make a crease, along the dotted line.

16. Using the crease that you made in No.15,

fold the left corner into the inside, as picture No.17 shows.

17. Spread it and adjust it well.

18. And it’s done!

19. Make five of them and put them together,

to make a cherry-blossom shaped box!

They all have elaborate designs and are perfect to use on special occasions, right?★

They will be even prettier if you put colorful snacks or sweets in them,

such as Hina-arare or Konpeitou.

The cherry-blossom shaped box connected with five of them is so beautiful, isn’t it?♪

Not only for just decorating or using for the snacks,

but you can also use them as boxes for some small articles.

【Translated by　 Kana Toda PIERCE】