How to Make Easy Origami Flowers: A Tulip and Stem
Nana's Guide to Easy Origami Flowers will teach you how to fold a pretty origami flower tulip and stem. Even beginners will find instant origami success!
Servings: 1 Origami tulip and stem
Cost: $1
Equipment
- Scissors Scissors are needed to cut rectangle paper into squares
- Bone folder (optional) A bone folder is handy for making good creases/folds in the paper.
Ingredients
- Colored copy paper Choose colored copy paper in colors you enjoy
- Colored copy paper in green Green paper is used to fold the tulip stems
- Scissors Scissors are needed to cut rectangle paper into squares
- Origami paper squares (optional) Origami paper can be different colors or patterns and are precut squares
- Markers or crayons (optional) Use colored markers or crayons if you want to decorate the petals.
Instructions
Cut your paper to size
- Cut the green paper into a square using the full size of the copy paper. The green paper for the stem should be roughly four times as large as the colored paper for the tulip bloom.
- Cut the colored paper for the tulip bloom into the same size square as the green paper. Then fold it in half as a rectangle in both directions and cut it into four squares along the folds, ¼ the size of the original square.
To make the tulip flower
- Start with your square piece of colored paper for the tulip bloom, color side down (if one sided paper). Fold diagonally to form a triangle
- Fold the triangle in half again to make a smaller triangle, open it up again.
- Place the triangle in front of you with the long side at the bottom. Take one corner (right or left) and bring it upward towards the center fold. With the fold beginning at the bottom center, fold this side upwards so the top of the fold is about ¾ inch from the center fold. This will form a tulip petal. Fold the opposite corner up in the same manner.
- Turn the tulip bloom over from right to left. Bend in the right corner about ½ inch. Repeat on the other side. I make this fold wider at the top then the bottom which creates more of a tulip shape when done. See the picture or video.
- Turn the folded paper over again right to left. Cut the bottom tip off of the tulip, just ⅛ to 1/16 inch is all you want. You will use this small hole after folding the stem.
To make the stem:
- Take a green square of paper, fold it diagonally and then reopen. Place the paper in front of you as a diamond in its position. Put color side down if using one sided paper.
- Take the right corner and fold it so the top right edge of the paper lines up with the center crease. Repeat this with the left corner. It will have a kite shape. Leave it in the same position.
- Fold the right corner so the bottom right edge lines up with the center crease. Repeat this with the left corner. Now it will have a long diamond shape. Leave it in the same position.
- Repeat step three with the right and left corners of the paper. It ends up in a very long kite shape. Leave the paper in the same position.
- Fold the bottom pointed corner up to the top corner and fold.
- Fold the paper in half along the center crease. Pull the center pointed section out about an inch and firmly fold again. This is where the bone folder tool really comes in handy! This center point will be the stem and the outside point is the leaf.
- Slide the stem into the bottom of your flower where you cut the small hole. Add a bit of glue to keep it in place if you want to.
Video
Notes
There are tips and variations on the post.
The link to a full length video to help you understand the written directions if found on the post at: https://welcometonanas.com/nanas-guide-to-easy-origami-flowers/