How to Make an Easy Origami Puppy
These instructions will show you how to make an easy origami puppy. If you’ve never folded anything before you should take a quick look at our Beginner’s Guide to learn all the basic techniques.
Step 1) Fold and unfold the paper in half both ways.
Step 2) Fold the 4 corners in towards the centre.
Step 3) Unfold the left corner of paper.
Step 4) Fold the paper in half horizontally.
Step 5) Open up the top layer of paper along the dotted line.
Step 6) Keep opening up the paper and Squash Fold it flat. Look at the next step to see how the final fold should look.
Step 7) Fold the top layer of paper up along the dotted line.
Step 8) Fold both sides of the head in to make ears along the dotted lines.
Step 9) Fold the top layer of paper down along the dotted line.
Step 10) Fold the paper inside the model along the dotted line and repeat behind.
Step 11) Rotate the model so it’s standing upright.
The completed puppy, feel free do draw in a cute little face.
What did you think about this origami puppy? Let us know in the comments.
You’re opening up the top layer of paper along the dotted line. Try to use step 7 as a guide for how it’s supposed to look. You open up the top layer of paper over to the right along that dotted line and then Squash Fold it into the shape you see in step 7.
Check the Beginner’s Guide here: https://origami.me/beginners-guide/
If you’re not familiar with how to do a Squash Fold.
hello. I am very new to this and I an finding the fold from 5-6 for the puppy very difficult. I don’t quite understand how to get the shape in no. 6. Can you help?