Origami: Butterfly
Folding a Butterfly:
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In this post I am going to run through the steps necessary to fold an Origami Butterfly. I like to make this as they are simple and look quite nice. If you pre-pattern the piece of paper it can look quite nice after folding.
You start with a square piece of paper, and there are in total 20 steps to making this piece.
1: Pre-crease a Mountain Fold in Half:
This pre-crease is used in the next step to provide a line to fold up to.
2: Valley Fold One Edge to the Middle Line:
This results in a rectangle with one dimension being three quarters of the other dimension. The next four folds are a complex pre-crease for a squash fold.
3: Valley Fold in Half:
You now have a rectangle which is 3/8 on one dimension relative to the other dimension.
4: Pre-crease Valley Fold in Half
Fold the paper in half again, in the other direction, side to side instead of top to bottom.
5: Valley Fold Diagonally
Do a valley fold to bring the right side bottom edge against the middle line. This fold should result in a previously bottom edge being parallel to the middle line.
6: Valley Fold Diagonally
This fold should make your piece symmetrical so it is almost a triangle pointing towards you. This is the final of the four pre-creases prior to a squash fold.
7: Unfold to step 2
The paper should have 3 pre-creases on it, one along the middle, and two angled creases all of which cross at the current middle point of the paper.
8: Squash Fold Meeting 2 Halves of Middle Line
Now you have to do a squash fold which will bring the left and right halves of the middle line together, touching. This is also like performing four valley folds on the diagonal lines.
9: Bring Edge to Middle Line
Fold a single layer of the "Wings" against the middle line, this fold creates the bottom half of the final wings, this fold will be repeated to make it symmetrical. Make sure you only fold a single layer here.
10: Repeat Previous Step
Again bring a single layer of the wings against the middle line.
11: Fold Remaining Layer into Tab
This produces an angled edge on the top of the wings and is repeated on both left and right.
12: Repeat Previous Step
Merely to make the piece symetrical.
13: Bring Thickest Tab Up
Take the thick middle tab up to take the middle tip of the piece up from the bottom.
14: Fold Tip Over Edge
Step 14 and 15 produce a "beak" for the butterfly, fold the tip over the edge it is against.
15: Reverse Fold Lower
Fold the tip back over the edge using a slightly higher point, resulting in a beak.
16: Fold in Half
Fold the butterfly in half, this results in the two halves being against each other.
17: Create Wings
Select a line to create the wings from, this can be different between people, but you are basically just finishing the wings.
Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed it. If you made one of these, please take photo and post it in the comments. If you have any other Origami you make, please post a photo of it, and please tell me if there is any particular Origami you would like to see made.
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