Did you able to make the fish from my previous post? Hope you did it and isn't it beautiful?
Today we can do a little lantern and it is in flowers form. It need a lot of time to put them together but hey you can do it with your siblings, kids and even grand parent because it is not too difficult. You just need 30 red packet, stapler, strings and may be some decoration.
The instructions:
Fun isn't it? Hope you can fold and put them together.
How to make a fish out of ang pow, a red packet in Chinese used to fill money. However there are art that being produce by this angpow to make fish, lantern, pineapple by folding the red packet.
"Masu" in Japanese mean measurement and if it translate directly masu box mean measurement box. It was originally a square wooden box used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period.
An origami shirt is a popular origami fold during father's day and easy to make. It can be paste in front of a card or can be a gift tag. U can fold it by using money such as RM 1 (paper note) and it will turn out very pretty but do not try to fold it with a polymer note as it may not fold properly.
This paper heart is called a Lucky Heart because it is made in the same way the Origami Lucky Stars
are made. Perhaps a name of Puff Heart or Puffy Heart might be appropriate since this
heart is puffy and not flat. Model uses one strip of paper and
requires cutting.
I am sure you have seen this stars as decorations in many places such as shops or showrooms. It is a fun and easy papercraft to make and can be decorated in many ways. You can put it in a jar, hang it as mobile or tie them together to make a colourful bracelet or an elegance necklace. update 6.11.2013: it also called origami lucky star as you give it as a gift to wish luck to someone.
This easy origamiheart
is perfect for everything, a gift to your love one, paste in on a card or even a gift tag. It's very simple to make and perfect
for everyone. Make one or make 10 and give them to your lover!
Paper can be folded into various type of objects and mostly folded into a small animals figurine, flowers and insects
For a beginner, it is advisable that we start with simple model, yesterday we start with a simple animal origami which is crane or bird as some people refer it. It is a fun model where we can hang it as mobile, paste it on the wall and make a card out of it.
Today we will teach you on how to fold a simple but an elegance flower, Tulip. Tulips is a spring-blooming perennials flowers that grow from bulbs. Tulips are often associated with the Netherlands, they thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers.
Although perennials, tulip bulbs are often imported to warm-winter areas
of the world from cold-winter areas, and are planted in the fall to be
treated as annuals.
It is a colourful flower and you can fold it in bright colour such as red, purple, pink and using pattern paper or just a plain white paper. You can fold as many as you can fold and put it on an origami stem or skewer, make a bouquet of flower as a gift to someone and as a decoration on a gift. Here is a video on how to fold a tulip and the stem.
We start our blog with something simple. A popular origami and may be the most origami being fold around the world, origami crane.
In Japan, it is commonly said that folding 1000 paper origami cranes makes a person's wish come true. The Thousand Origami Cranes has become a symbol of world peace through
the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who tried to stave off her
death from leukemia as a result of radiation from the atomic bombing of
Hiroshima during World War II by making one thousand origami cranes,
having folded only 644 before her death, and that her friends completed
and buried them all with her. (This is only one version of the story.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum states that she did, in fact, complete
the 1,000 cranes.)
To fold the crane i will guide you. Hmmm, would you like a diagram or video? For me video is the best as we can see details on how we can fold the paper but not all can access to high speed internet and follow the video. So i provide all of you with diagram and video. Please comment so that i can improve this blog for you.
Here is an aid for you if you wish to fold it. There are a lot of variation but i think this is the simplest one.
