Origami Butterfly

Total Time: 5 minutes per butterfly

Supplies:

• One square of paper
• optional - adhesive such as glue, double sided tape or a glue dot

Steps:

1. Fold your square of paper corner to corner with the plain side to the inside if your paper is patterned

 
2. Crease the fold well

 
3. Repeat in the opposite direction

 
4. Crease well again

 
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5. Open it out and make another fold. this time bring the sides together with the patterned side to the inside

 
6. Crease it well

 
7. Open it out again

 
8. Then fold edge to edge in the opposite direction

 
9. Your folded paper should now look like this

 
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10. Pull it all together

 
11. Then lay it flat like a triangle

 
12. Pull up one of the corners like this

 
13. Fold it up to the top point but pull slightly to one side to offset it. Then crease it flat

 
14. Do the same with the other point

 
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15. Turn the whole thing over and it will look like this from the other side

 
16. Fold the top corner down and crease

 
17. Pull this folded corner up and over the top to the front. Do not crease it this time

 
18. This is how it will now look from the front with a slight curvature

 
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19. Pinch the centre top

 
20. And crease together firmly at the back

 
21. If the top corner that you folded to the front isn't staying in place very well, you can secure it with glue, double sided tape of a glue dot

 
22. Make them in different colours and designs for an amazing and pretty display

 

 
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Your directions are wonderful. I am an origami lover and will begin this type of butterfly right away. Ma y thanks. Karen