Origami Easter Party!

Lately, I wanted to delve into the world of Origami. There are great websites related to this cute Japanese folding technique, and more precisely on tutorials that will guide you to make whatever you think is possible. I haven't reached a professional level yet, but I surely enjoyed an afternoon of origami to decorate a dull kitchen ceiling lamp for Easter.

Two websites that I found very useful for this crafty project: http://www.origami.com/ & http://www.paperprintables.com/

On both you will get what you need for this project, although, I did try to make a tutorial for our Flapping Bird origami.

Here it is:

What you will need for this project are:

-Some colorful papers

-Nylon fishing thread

-Beads

- Scissors and a needle

First thing, you cut a square piece of paper, and fold it diagonally and only once on the center.

It should look like this.

Close the whole so as you get a triangle on both sides like this:

Take one side and fold the bottom of the triangle up, on the right side make sure the folding line goes till the middle and on the left side make sure the folding line reaches the left vertex.

It should create a fold on the inside creating one more triangle (here in white), make sure that the folding line reaches the vertex on the right of the main triangle, shown as follows:

Turn it around, and you'll be getting this:

Flip the right edge of this triangle to the left.

It will look the same as it was before you flipped the edge. Now, you will do a similar fold as the one before, fold the bottom of this triangle and make sure the folding line on the left edge is on the middle and that it reaches the vertex on the right, creating yet again a white triangle that will have a folding line reaching the triangle vertex on the left.

Facing this way, you should fold the right side up, press hard as you will need this to guide you through the coming steps. Here you go. And then press again the tip to create the beak, press hard! There, it should look like this:

Unfold these last two and open the bottom to introduce the tip you just folded by the folded lines you just did. It will make the white part of the paper show.

You see the other fold that you made earlier, you will then open this tip and fold as though the beak were to come out.

BRAVO! You're Flapping bird is done!

If you hold the tail and the bottom of the neck, and pull gently on either side to the opposite directions, you will flap its wings! YEY!

To finish the whole use the fishing threat and place a bead at one bottom, secure it! And the make a hole with the needle on the top of the bird, pass the thread through it and keep placing beads till you place the second bird and then attach it to the lamp.

FINITO! BRAVO! YOU MADE IT!