How To Make An Origami Dog

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uk . What I'm going to fold now is an origami dog. And the way you do this is: you fold the paper in half, diagonally.

You then take this bottom edge and fold it up to the center. Do the same on the other side. So there we have the classic kite fold.

What we do next is: we take this little triangle that we have created, and we fold it back on itself. It doesn't really matter exactly how far you do this, but you want the crease to meet at the angle change at the top of the model, where these flaps come forward. So you have got that kind of effect.

The next thing we are going to do is reverse-fold this narrow point. The way we do a reverse-fold, what we do is: we are going to create the crease we are going to make, like that. So essentially, this, which is the back of the dog, is leveled with the chin of the dog.

Open the crease you have just made, and reverse it, pushing it in, like so. The next thing we're going to do is: there is some paper in here we can release. Similarly, on the other side there is some paper to release.

We have got the two ends of the dog: the head is that end, the tail is that end. We are going to do the tail first, so I'll flip it and do this from right to left. We take the tail and fold it back on itself, then fold it forward on itself.

So we have the shape of the tail. We are going to put a wad of paper inside the model, so open the model up and reverse it all in. So now, we have the dog's tail.

We'll do the dog's head next, a similar process, fold it back on itself, then forward on itself, to test, and reverse it all inside the model. No dog is complete without a nice wet nose, so we reverse the point to make a nose. And there, we have a barking dog.