How to Fold an Origami Rhinoceros

ByFlorent Fabre

Designer: Caleb Witte

Let’s learn how to fold an origami rhinoceros designed by Caleb Witte. This model has a strong shape with a large horn, a raised back, and short, sturdy legs that make it easy to recognize.

This is a low-intermediate model and a fun challenge for beginners with some folding experience. The folding sequence is fairly simple, but as the layers build up, some of the later folds become tighter and a little harder to shape neatly.

To make things easier to follow, we broke the tutorial into 39 detailed steps, including 37 video steps to guide you through the trickier parts of the model.

Difficulty: Low-Intermediate
Folding time: 20-30 minutes

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Author Florent Fabre

Hi, I’m Flo, and I’m the hands behind Origami.me.

After spending more than five years immersed in Japanese culture, I slowly fell in love with origami and the quiet focus that comes with folding paper. What started as simple curiosity became a real passion, not only for the art itself, but also for the calm, creativity, and mindfulness it brings to everyday life.

Today, I create tutorials, work with origami artists from around the world, and help beginners discover that anyone can learn origami, one fold at a time.

Designer Caleb Witte

Caleb Witte has been a passionate origami artist for over 15 years, focusing on designing animals and fantastical creatures. He is drawn to origami for its unique qualities — it is a limitless and accessible art form that manipulates the paper without adding or subtracting any material. All the creativity is used with just a single sheet of paper.

Diagrammer Peter Buchan-Symons

Peter Buchan-Symons is an Oxford-based origami designer who has been folding paper since childhood. With a love for clean, intuitive instructions, he creates many of the diagrams you’ll find on Origami.me and in our membership. Peter’s models blend creativity with the crisp logic of his mathematics background, making his work both fun to fold and easy to follow.