How To Make An Origami Turtle
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How To Make An Origami Turtle
Origami Mark is making a bird base for an origami turtle. Special paper is used for the project, that is available for hobbyists of paper folding. Mark shows you how to carefully place the creases in the base of the project along with instructions on folding selected pockets in the desired ways for completing your project. The turtle's head, feet and belly are shown in fast motion towards the end of the video clip, while the rest of the paper folding is shown in regular time so you can easily form the base for the turtle which is called a bird base as you can create other things in addition to turtles with the proper instructions.
My name is Origami Mark. You can contact me on my website, which is origamimark.co.
uk. In this session, I am going to show you how to make an origami turtle. I'm starting off with a square of paper, it's turtley-colored on one side and white on the other.
Now, we start by putting in the diagonals. Fold them.fold them in half diagonally, fold them the other way diagonally. Open the paper up.
What we now want to do is blintz the square, which means we fold the corners in. The easy way to do this is fold the paper in half with the white part showing, this is especially what we put in the turtles. Fold in the corner.
all the corners to the center.
You fold that corner into the center. The easy way to do is just to fold two, fold to the place, rather than trying to do the whole thing with the thing unfolded. And so, there will be two at the point, these two, then we repeat for the other two.
So we have a blintzed square. And there is the opportunity with this blintzed square. What we are going to do next, is make a bird base.
We have the bird base with the flaps in or the flaps out. We want the bird base with the flaps in. So we fold in half, whatever comes in.
Fold it in half again. We then open this pocket, then flap it down. Then it's on the other side, open the pocket, flap it down.
And to complete the bird base on this preliminary base, we just petal fold these bumps, fold to the center, center line. So, you got a pie shape. We open that whole flap up, reverse these folds that we just made, in on themselves, then that will allow the whole point to open up into a diamond shape.
Do the same on the other side. So, we have the traditional bird base, with the blimps inside it. What we can do next is get some creases in on the insides of the crease.
The next step is I am going to form a move I call a stretch on this bird base which means I am going to grab two of these prongs and pull them. And that's going to stretch the bird base. Then, flatten them up.
Having formed the head, form the feet, which are crimps. I'm locking the model using the flaps underneath, and, we end up with something like this.