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How To: Origami a traditional fancy box

Review these simple steps to fold your own origami fancy box. These visual guidelines will help you through some of the more difficult folds, but you may want to look at an instruction booklet as well. There are many versions of the traditional Japanese origami fancy box.

How To: Origami a fancy box

Follow the instructions in this video to fold your own traditional origami box. These visual guidelines will help you through some of the more difficult folds. When you finished folding, you can keep paper clips in this traditional Japanese origami box.

How To: Six pointed star of papercraft

Follow this example to fold an origami six pointed star. This video provides clear visual examples so that you will not need an instruction booklet. This six pointed star can be folded from a single piece of silver origami paper. The six pointed star is sometimes used as an ornament at Tanabata, the Japanese festival of stars.

How To: Origami a lantern of papercraft

Review these simple steps to fold an simple and charming origami lantern. You only need a small piece of origami paper and a pair of scissors. This paper ornament and others can be used as decorations for Tanabata, the Japanese festival of stars. It is possible to attach several of these paper lanterns to a string of lights and illuminate your work.

How To: Origami lighted party cubes

Follow a few simple steps to make a set of vellum origami cubes. Then enhance the cubes with decorative paper, sequins, and sticky Zots. With a string of small white or colored lights, the origami cubes serve as perfect homemade party lanterns. More than an origami lesson, vellum lantern cubes can provide mood lighting for any room.

How To: Origami a snowdrop

Watch this instructional origami video on how to make an origami snowdrop, folded and designed by Joost Langeveld. The flower of this snowdrop plant should be folded from a triangular piece of paper. The snowdrop flowers in the background serve as ready inspiration for this tiny origami project. A final twist of paper brings the origami flower to life. Additions of green paint and a green paper stem perfect the illusion.

How To: Origami a paper dragon

Watch this instructional origami video to learn how to fold an origami paper dragon. This is a fairly difficult origami dragon to fold, and it deviates a bit from the more traditional Japanese origami dragon. You may want to use a pen to further sculpt the dragon wings.

How To: Origami a stiletto

View this instructional origami video to fold a single paper stiletto shoe. With these instructions, the art of paper folding becomes fairly simple. One can repeat these instructions to complete the pair of origami paper stilettos.

How To: Origami a horse

Watch this origami tutorial video to learn how to fold an origami horse. This video begins with a display of a completed paper horse, to assist with easier execution. The visual guide is helpful on more difficult steps in folding the origami horse.

How To: Origami a turtle big or small

Once all cats are out of the shot, this video will show you how to fold an origami turtle. The simple visual instructions allow for easy origami paper folding. The last portion of these instructions include how to make smaller versions of most origami projects.

How To: Origami a pair of boots

Perhaps the only video tutorial on how to fold a pair of origami boots, this video offers some tips on folding a fairly high end pair of paper boots. All you need is a single piece of origami paper and a pair of scissors. You may want to use a pen to shape the final product. When you're finished, the origami boots should stand elegantly side by side.

How To: Origami a rose leaf

Follow the examples shown in this instructional video to learn how to fold an origami rose leaf. The origami rose leaf can decorate a previously completed paper rose, but also deserves some attention of its own. The step by step visuals are helpful on some of the tiny folds required for the origami flower leaf.

How To: Origami a hydrangea for cards and stationery

Watch this instructional video and make an origami hydrangea. It's many tiny pieces can be glued to a flat surface to decorate cards and letters. The video includes verbal instructions in Japanese, although the visual guide is quite clear. You will need a piece of colored origami paper for the flower blossoms and a green piece of origami paper for the folded leaf.

How To: Origami a Milky Way ornament of papercraft

Watch this instructional video to learn how to make an origami paper Milky Way ornament. With one piece of origami paper and a pair of scissors, one can form a beautiful ornament that is sometimes used for Tanabata, the Japanese festival of stars. This and other paper ornaments can be combined to create larger decorative pieces.

How To: Origami a snail spiral of papercraft

With some origami paper, scissors and glue, one can make simple and elegant paper snail spirals. They can be used as decorations for events such Tanabata, the Japanese star festival. This instructional video allows you to make paper spirals that, combined with other origami shapes, can also become larger decorative pieces.

How To: Fold a six pointed star from rectangular paper

This origami tutorial will show you how to fold a six pointed star out of a regular piece of 8 1/2" X 11" paper. There are verbal instructions in Japanese for those who will find it useful, but the step by step visuals are quite clear. To fold an origami six pointed star, one only needs a single piece of rectangular paper and a little patience.

How To: Origami a paper rhombicuboctahedron

Invented by Tom Hull in 2007, here's how to fold a Rhombicuboctahedron, an innovation on the cuboctahedron, out of origami paper. 24 smaller paper units can lock together in a pattern, which if carried through properly, will form a complex geometric shape out of folded paper.

How To: Origami a balloon fish

Take on an unusual challenge and learn to make an origami balloon fish. Follow this clear example to fold some bulging white eyes of a yellow puffer fish. This step by step process will allow you to create charmingly realistic balloon fish out of paper.

How To: Origami a flowery container

Follow this simple yet clear example to make your own origami flower shaped box. The step by step process will allow you to complete some of the more difficult folds that go into creating this tulip shaped container. Unlike other origami containers, this tulip cup is neither boxy nor overly complex.

How To: Origami a Chinese rice dumpling

Review these simple steps to learn how to make an origami rice dumpling. You can use green paper as shown to make it look quite realistic. This simple but clear display of paper folding can teach you how to make seemingly edible objects with origami.

How To: Origami a fun balloon fish

Watch this video origami tutorial and learn how to fold a balloon fish. Start of with a single square of paper and follow along with these step by step directions to end up with a fish balloon. This traditional Japanese art is as fun as it is beautiful.

How To: Origami an electra icosidodecahedron

This video origami tutorial provides instruction on how to make icosidodecahedron out of Dave Mitchell's electra modules. This piece is a great example of modular origami, which is an origami project that requires multiple sheets of paper instead of one simple square. Watch this instructional video and learn how to fold an origami electra icosidodecahedron.

How To: Origami a paper canoe boat

Canoes are a proud and noble tradition, dating back to 7600 BC. While it takes a skilled craftsmen to make a real canoe, even you can make a one out of paper, unless origami folding is somehow too challenging. Watch this video origami tutorial and learn how to fold a paper canoe.

How To: Origami a paper rabbit

Watch this video origami tutorial and learn how to fold a paper rabbit. You'll need a piece of square paper and some scissors. Follow along with the demonstrator as he walks through the simple steps of folding a paper rabbit. Watch this instructional video and learn how to origami a folded paper bunny rabbit.

How To: Origami a paper vase

This video origami tutorial series shows how to fold an elegant paper vase. Follow along with the demonstrator to see the simple steps to making this paper flower vase. Use it to store origami flowers, for blooms that will last forever. Watch this instructional video and learn how to origami a folded paper flower vase.

How To: Origami an 8-pointed star

This video origami tutorial shows how to transform a single sheet of square paper into an eight point star. Follow along with the demonstrator as she folds up this origami project. Watch this instructional video and learn how to origami a folded 8 point star.

How To: Origami a phoenix

The design explains itself; almost all folds are easily determined from other creases. The phoenix is a sacred brid from Greek mythology that is born from ashes. Watch this video origami tutorial and learn how to make a phoenix using the traditional Japanese art of paper folding.

How To: Origami a lightsaber

This origami light saber actually needs a rectangular piece of paper, instead of the traditional origami square paper. This video demonstration uses foil origami paper, for an authentic look and finish. Watch this video origami tutorial and learn how to fold an origami lightsaber.

How To: Fold a Nakamura Knot paper airplane

This paper airplane has got to be one of the best airplanes of all time. It's called the Nakamura Knot for theknot in the center of the plane that keeps the airplane well-balanced. However, these airplanes take a couple good trials to get right. Once you've constructed it correctly, it should be a straight, even-flying plane. With trial and error, some of your airplanes might do flips, fly in circles, or come back and poke you in the eye, but luckily this airplane doesn't have a sharp tip. Wa...

How To: Fold an origami slave

An origami slave isn't going to start doing chores or going to work for you, but you can always pretend. Start out with a frog base, and note that foil paper works best. Learn how to fold an origami slave by watching this video tutorial.

How To: Origami a paper duck

This video origami tutorial shows how to use the traditional Japanese art of paper folding to make a duck. All you need is a square piece of paper and nimble fingers. Watch this instructional video and learn how to origami a folded paper duck.

How To: Origami a beautiful hyperbolic arch

If you have some time to kill, this is the perfect origami project to try. Admire the beauty of the structure and ponder the mathematical paradox of making curves from straight lines. This hyperbolic origami arch structure is derived from what is mathematically termed "hyperbolas". Watch this origami video and learn how simple it is to fold a mathematically inspired hyperbolic arch.

How To: Origami a two toned tulip flower

Here's an origami video showing you how to fold a tulip! Always start your origami folding with a square piece of paper. If you don't have a perfectly square piece of origami paper this video will show you how. Once you've cut out the piece, begin folding the red tulip flower. Keep watching to learn how to origami the green stem.

How To: Origami small rose flowers for scrapbooking

This origami how-to video demonstrates how to fold an origami rose to embellish a scrapbook, greeting card or other paper craft projects. Folding your own origami roses is super easy and a great way to use left over scrapbooking materials. Watch this how to video and learn to origami small flowers.