31 Origami Elephants to Fold for the #ElephantOrigamiChallenge
In case you haven’t heard about the #ElephantOrigamiChallenge what you need to know is OrigamiUSA has partnered with 96 Elephants to raise awareness for the 35,000 elephants that are killed every year.
They’re trying to collect over 35,000 origami elephants to beat the current world record for largest display of origami elephants.
If you’d like more details check out this post:
How You Can Help Save African Elephants by Folding Origami
If you need some inspiration for your own elephant folding then check out this collection of some of my favourite origami elephants.
First up is this simple but very well designed and elegant looking 3D elephant.
Little Elephant, Designed by Li Jun and Folded by Nyanko Sensei
Video instructions available from Jo Nakashima’s YouTube channel
Shuki Kato has designed a couple of fantastic origami elephants, here’s his Asian elephant design.
Asian Elephant, Designed and Folded by Shuki Kato
Crease pattern available from Shuki Kato’s Flickr
Here’s an adorable little elephant family designed by Nguyen Ngoc Vu.
Elephant Family, Designed and Folded by Nguyen Ngoc Vu
Instructions not available
Here’s another pretty simple but quite cute elephant design.
Elephant, Designed by Stephan Weber and Folded by Rui Roda
Video instructions available from Stephan Weber’s YouTube channel
This is a beautiful elephant design by Fabian Correa. Lots of elephants like this use double sided paper with white on one side to make white tusks.
African Elephant, Designed and Folded by Fabian Correa
Instructions not available
Here’s a great and quite realistic looking elephant design by Artur Biernacki.
Elephant, Designed and Folded by Artur Biernacki
Crease pattern available from Artur Biernacki’s Flickr
This is Shuki Kato’s excellent African elephant design folded by Philippe Landrein.
African Elephant, Designed by Shuki Kato and Folded by Philippe Landrein
Crease pattern available from Shuki Kato’s Flickr
Here’s a very cute little African elephant.
African Elephant, Designed by Gerard Ty Sovann and Folded by Luc MARNAT
Diagrams available in Pure Origami
This little baby elephant is a very cute design.
Baby Elephant, Designed by Enrique Martínez and Folded by Pierre-andré
Instructions not available
Gen Hagiwara has designed an origami elephant that looks relatively simple but still is full of detail.
Elephant, Designed and Folded by Gen Hagiwara
Diagrams available in Spirits of Origami
Here’s another great elephant design with different coloured tusks.
Elephant, Designed by John Montroll and Folded by Nicolas TERRY
Diagrams available in Origami and Math Simple to Complex
Seth Friedman also has an awesome elephant design that was inspired by Shuki Kato’s Asian elephant.
Asian Elephant, Designed and Folded by Seth Friedman
Crease pattern available from Seth Friedman’s website
This next elephant Danielle Verbeeten folded specifically for the #ElephantOrigamiChallenge.
Elephant, Designed by Sipho Mabona and Folded by Danielle Verbeeten
Instructions not available
Here’s a beautiful elephant design from Quentin Trollip that looks fantastic standing on that wood stand.
African Elephant, Designed by Quentin Trollip and Folded by Eyal
Diagrams available in Origami Sequence
Hiroaki Kobayashi has also designed a fantastic looking origami elephant.
African Elephant, Designed and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Instructions not available
Here’s a beautiful pair of elephants folded by Eyal using “elephant hide” paper which is probably the best kind of paper to fold an origami elephant out of.
Elephants, Designed by Artur Biernacki and Folded by Eyal
Instructions not available
Beth Johnson designed this simple but very cute elephant.
Elephant, Designed and Folded by Beth Johnson
Instructions not available
This is another excellent 3D origami elephant.
Elephant, Designed and Folded by Mauricio Flórez
Instructions not available
Here’s Shuki Kato’s other elephant design, this time it’s an African elephant.
African Elephant, Designed and Folded by Shuki Kato
Crease pattern available from Shuki Kato’s Flickr
This is Quentin Trollip’s elephant design that he folded himself and you can see that it has a bit of a different feel then when Eyal folded it earlier in this post.
African Elephant, Designed and Folded by Quentin Trollip
Diagrams available in Origami Sequence
This next origami elephant is made 100 times more awesome by the paper that was used to fold it.
Elephant, Designed by Román Díaz and Folded by Origami Wind
Diagrams available in Origami for Interpreters
Here’s another simpler but still quite expressive origami elephant. It’s also quite cute.
Elephant, Designed by Fumiaki Kawahata and Folded by Rui Roda
Video instructions available on Leyla Torres’s YouTube channel
Artur Biernacki really does have a nice and realistic looking elephant design.
Elephant, Designed and Folded by Artur Biernacki
Instructions not available
This next model is a very unique kind of elephant with wings. It’s definitely a beautiful photo and probably one of my all time favourite origami photos.
Winged Elephant, Designed and Folded by Daniel Chang
Instructions not available
Here’s another very cute little elephant.
Elephant, Designed by Marc Kirschenbaum and Folded by Rui Roda
Diagrams available in the Origami Tanteidan 12th Convention Book
Tetsuya Gotani has another great 3D elephant design.
Elephant, Designed and Folded by Tetsuya Gotani (Photo by Evan Zodl)
Diagrams available in the Origami Tanteidan 19th Convention Book
Here’s Roman Diaz’s origami elephant folded by a different origami artist.
Elephant, Designed by Roman Diaz and Folded by Luc MARNAT
Diagrams available in Origami for Interpreters
And here it is again really demonstrating how each origami folder gives their own sort of variation to the design.
Elephant, Designed by Roman Diaz and Folded by Agnieska (Agne) Mackonyte
Diagrams available in Origami for Interpreters
Here’s P. Colman’s interpretation of Shuki Kato’s African elephant.
African Elephant, Designed by Shuki Kato and Folded by P. Colman
Crease pattern available from Shuki Kato’s Flickr
Here’s another absolutely adorable origami elephant family.
Elephants, Designed by Akiko Yamanashi and Folded by Agnieska (Agne) Mackonyte
Diagrams available in NOA Magazine #441
Our final elephant design for this post comes from Mariano Zavala B. who’s been folding incredible animal/human hybrid models. Recently he uploaded this amazing Mr. Elephant design.
Mr. Elephant, Designed and Folded by Mariano Zavala B.
Instructions not available
Now it’s your turn to go out and fold some origami elephants for the #ElephantOrigamiChallenge. The deadline is September 16, 2016 and they need lots, and lots of elephants.
You can get all the details about the #ElephantOrigami Challenge from this post:
How You Can Help Save African Elephants by Folding Origami
If you do fold any origami elephants post a photo in the comments because we’d love to see them.
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