Fantastic Origami Farm Animals to Fold When You’re Cooped Up
In this post we’re going to take a look at a group of excellent paper farm animals. These are the standard sorts of animals you’d expect to see on a farm such as cows, pigs, sheep, etc.
We’ll start off with these two adorable sheep from Gen Hagiwara. He folded these for Chinese New Year in the year of the sheep. I love how the perfect parts are black and white when you use two-sided paper.
Sheep, Designed and Folded by Gen Hagiwara
Instructions not available
There are lots of great origami horse designs out there but Hoang Tien Quyet’s design is definitely the most elegant looking. If you use two-sided paper the mane and tail end up a different colour than the body.
Horse, Designed by Hoang Tien Quyet and Folded by Mariano
Diagrams available in VOG: 50 Hours of Origami+
If you have a farm you definitely need a cat to take care of the mice. I really like the shape of this one.
Cat, Designed by Giang Dinh and Folded by Antoine S. (origoku)
Diagrams available in License to Fold
Every farm also needs a rooster and here’s an excellent one designed by Jaeil Jeong. The colour changes with the white and red are perfect.
Rooster, Designed and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
Instructions not available
Here’s one of the coolest looking goats that I’ve seen.
Goat, Designed and Folded by Ta Trung Dong
Instructions not available
This is a really awesome bull. The photograph is great and you can really feel the strength of the bull even though it’s just made out of paper.
Bull, Designed by Dong Viet Thien and Folded by Gonzalo
Video instructions available from Breath of Paper’s YouTube channel
Here’s an excellent cow to go along with this bull. I love all the details on the head.
Cattle, Designed by Yoo Tae Yong and Folded by J.W Park
Diagrams available in Origami Works of Yoo Tae Yong
Here’s an adorable family of paper ducks.
Ducks, Designed by Hoàng Tiến Quyết and Folded by Andrea Borsa
Diagrams available in VOG: 50 Hours of Origami+
Jaeil Jeong designed this really excellent pig.
Pig, Designed and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
Diagrams available from Jaeil Jeong’s Flickr
Quentin Trollip has what’s easily one of the best origami horse designs out there. If you use brown and white paper like you see here there are some excellent colour changes in the legs and on the head.
Clydesdale Horse, Designed by Quentin Trollip and Folded by Willie G. Crespo
Diagrams available in Origami Sequence
This next model is Seth Friedman’s Finnish Lapphund. Normally when people fold and photograph this model they always show it from the side. This is the first time I’ve seen it from this angle and there are a lot of really great details on the face.
Here Ju Hyeong Kim folded the model a little bit differently so it’s sitting down instead of standing like it normally is.
Finnish Lapphund, Designed by Seth Friedman and Folded by Ju Hyeong Kim
Video instructions available from Seth Friedman’s YouTube channel
Here are two more excellent paper chickens.
Chicken and Rooster, Designed and Folded by Choi Ju Young
Instructions not available
Satoshi Kamiya has one of the most realistic looking sheep designs I’ve seen out there. This one is folded from one 35cm x 35cm square of paper and it took 2 and a half hours to fold!
If you try folding this model be sure to use very thin paper otherwise the horns get very hard to fold.
Sheep, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Philipp-Marius Kost
Diagrams available in the Tanteidan 21st Convention Book
Hoàng Tiến Quyết is still one of my all time favourite origami artists. He has a very unique curved style in all his designs and uses wet folding a lot. Here’s one of his fantastic pig designs. This is a more “Grown-up” version of his famous pig.
Pig (October 2015), Designed and Folded by Hoàng Tiến Quyết
Instructions not available
Kei Watanabe has designed some incredible and complex models. Here he’s designed a kuchinoshima-ushi or a Japanese cattle.
Japanese Cattle, Designed and Folded by Kei Watanabe
Instructions not available
Lots of farms have rabbits and here are two adorable ones folded by Rainer Berg.
Rabbits, Designed by Ronald Koh and Folded by Rainer Berg
Diagrams available in the Bogota 2013 Origami Convention book
This isn’t a super complex looking goat but it’s still got a really fantastic design.
Goat, Designed by Nguyên Hùng Cu’ò’ng and Folded by Andrés
Diagrams available in the Tanteidan 21st Convention Book
Here’s another really excellent horse design. I especially like that prancing leg.
Horse, Designed by Hideo Komatsu and Folded by Natalia Romanenko
Diagrams available in Works of Hideo Komatsu
Beth Johnson has a really cute sheep design that uses a tessellation pattern for the fur.
Sheep, Designed by Beth Johnson and Folded by Philippe Landrein
Diagrams available in Tanteidan Magazine #148
I really like the 3D square design of Fernando Castellanos’s cow. It almost reminds me of a milk carton which is perfect since it’s a cow.
Cow, Designed and Folded by Fernando Castellanos
Instructions not available
Here’s one more excellent rooster for this post. It’s folded from one 60cm x 60cm sheet of paper with some excellent colour changes on the head and legs.
Rooster, Designed and Folded by origami-M-H-G
Instructions not available
This is another really unique looking pig design.
Pig, Designed by Cyrille Masseys and Folded by Guillermo R. Parrondo
Diagrams available in the Bogota 2014 Origami Convention book
This might be the most realistic paper goat design I’ve ever seen. The details here are awesome and it’s nice to see the model from multiple angles.
Goat, Designed by Taiga Yamamoto and Folded by Tkak Sakai
Instructions not available
Here’s one last cow photographed from a really dynamic angle.
Cattle, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Kyoung Su Kim
Diagrams available in Tanteidan Magazine #141
Our final model in this post is this great origami bull. I really like the lines, shapes and angles in the design. The pose of the bull is excellent too, it looks quite strong.
Bull, Designed and Folded by Jaeil Jeong
Instructions not available
That’s it for this post! If you end up folding any of these the next time you’re cooped up share a photo in the comments so we can take a look!
