Origami Canoe

Day-5 Origami Canoe

A canoe is a small narrow boat, typically human-powered, though it may also be powered by sails or small electric or gas motors. Canoes usually are pointed at both bow and stern and are normally open on top, but can be covered. In its human-powered form, the canoe is propelled by the use of paddles, usually with two people. Paddlers face in the direction of travel, either seated on supports in the hull, or kneeling directly upon the hull. Paddling can be contrasted with rowing, where the rowers usually face away from the direction of travel and use mounted oars (though a wide canoe can be fitted with oarlocks and rowed). Paddles may be single-bladed or double-bladed.(Source-origami-kids)

Origami canoe can be termed slighty higher than simple in the difficulty level,this is because its not tough to fold but tough to unfold the last part to get the shape of the boat.

I started with a standard square orgami paper and got the boat done in the first go.So I believe its not that difficult.Also a suggestion would be to use a double side coloured/contrast coloured paper to get the actual effect.

I have taken 1/2 of 5 7/8th inch square sheet of origami paper

Here is my finished origami canoe





Folding Instruction:-

Diagram:-
origami-instructions.com

Graphical:-
origami-kids.com.com

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Origami Hydrangea

Day 4 - Origami Hydragena

Its a flower today.Till date I have tried many origami flower instruction but I found this one as simple,easy and fast.This flower maynot look so wonderful singly but a bunch of it would really look wonderful.

I would suggest to try a smaller square to make the flower as a very big or very small wouldnt look good.





As I had used 1/4 th of 5 7/8th inch square sheet of origami paper

Folding instructions:-

Diagram:-

origami club

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Hydragena

Origami Fan

Day 3- Origami Fan

I suppose this is something we all keep doing ... Origami Fan.Origami fan needs no special skill or practice to fold.On complexity level I would term it as Simple rather very simple.

You can take standard origami paper or a chiyogami paper.Actually I would suggest you try gift papers,chocolate wrappers instead of standard origami paper.

In childhood whenever I used to get a chocolate from a friend on their birthday I would fold this fan out of the wrapper and give it to them :P

Here is my origami fan made out of standard one side coloured origami paper:-



Though I am actually not happy with this fan but still its one of the standard/traditional origami model so I thought it would be good to add it on list.

Folding Instruction:-

Diagram :-

Origami-instructions

Origami - Fortune teller

Day 2 - Origami Fortune Teller.

One more from childhood paper folding..
This needs a square sheet of paper.On complexity level I would term it as simple with very few folds .It can be folded in very less time but interesting .You can use it for playing games,as a flower,the same fold can be used to decorate napkins on the table and so on....

You need a square sheet of paper to start with.Here is my fortune teller.I made it really small so that it can be used as a flower or decorative piece on my Christmas tree( the tree isn't big so the decoration have to be small) .



It is made out of 1/4th of 5 7/8th inch square sheet of origami paper

Folding Instruction:-

Diagram:-
Origami-instructions.com

Video:-


Books:-

Simple Boat

Day 1 - Boat

So to start with I folded the very familiar boat.This is a model which I had been folding from my childhood when I didn't even know of origami.

In a rainy season in the class room during the recess we would make this boat and let it sail over the running water until you get caught by the teacher.





It requires a rectangular piece of paper.As I had squared colour papers I took a 5 7/8th inch square sheet of origami paper ,cut it a half and then took 3/4 of that half to start with ( my boat is bit small).


Another one made out of Post-it Notes of Neon colours.You need to cut the paper a bit to get it into rectangular shape.

Folding Instructions:-

Diagram:-
Origami Fun
Origami Instruction

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