Origami Exercise 2

  1. Take a colored piece of paper and place it face down on the table.
  2. Fold the paper in half diagonally. Unfold.
    Diagram of piece of paper with the corners at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock folded into the centre and creased so that the uppermost edge forms a straight vertical line
  3. Fold two edges to the centre crease.
    Diagram of piece of paper with the corners at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock folded into the centre and creased so that the uppermost edge forms a straight vertical line
  4. Fold dot to dot.
    Diagram showing corner at 12 o'clock folded down to meet the horizontal line in the centre of the paper
  5. Fold the short corner up a little way.
    Diagram showing the corner in the middle of the paper folded upwards a few centimetres.
  6. Fold in half.
    Diagram showing right half of the paper folded underneath the left half
  7. Pull the small triangle upwards and sqeeze to make new creases.
    Diagram showing the small triangle pulled upwards.
  8. Pull the next section of paper to the left and squeeze to make new creases.
    Diagram showing the section below the triangle pulled outwards
  9. You made an origami bird! Or did you?