Origami is the japanese art of paper folding. It's an art form not many have the patience to master, but once you learn to create beautiful shapes from a simple paper, you can impress friends and family with your art.

I'm gonna teach you how to make an origami flower, simple to make and with a beautiful result.

It might take some patience, since origami requires some pretty exact folds, but once you finally master it, I guarantee you that you will know how to make something thats a great gift, an uncommon talent, and a good little talent to show people.

This origami flower can help you master other origami forms, since its got some complex forms made through simple folding.

Hope you enjoy!

Step 1: What You'll Need

What you'll need to make the flower is a piece of square paper.

It doesn't need to be origami paper, the only thing that maters is that its square.

If you don't have a square piece of paper don't worry you can make one with

*A Piece of Printer Paper

*Scissors

*A Ruler

*A Pencil

Step 2: If You Don't Have Square Paper ...

If You Don't have square paper then do the following

Take the printer paper

*Take a flap and fold it like shown in the first and second pictures

*Use a pencil to mark the line that was made between the triangle and the rectangle

*Using scissors, cut along the line

Voila there you have a square!

Step 3: First Fold

Have the color you want to have on the outside of the flower facing upwards.

Fold the paper in half forming a rectangle.

Step 4: Fold Sideways

Fold it sideways now. Look at the pictures

You should end up having a small square

Step 5: Fourth Fold

Now this is where it starts getting tricky

Take a flap and open up a half of the square.

Flatten the square into a triangle.

Again please Look at the Pictures

Step 6: Flatten the Other Square

Now Flatten the other square

Step 7: First Actual Fold

By now you shoud have a triangle.

Take one flap and flatten it.

Try to align the creases, that way the flower will come out symmetrical

Step 8: Crease

Take the flaps from the diamond shape created and fold them to the line.

Then unfold them to make a crease.

Note: Crease means to mark the shape

Step 9: The Trickiest Part

OK Now this is the trickiest part of the flower so you might want to look at the pictures a couple of times to understand.

Lift the bottom flap (the point of the diamond shape) up.

Fatten it making sure that the bottom flap stays over the top flap. Like I said You might want to take an extra look at the pictures.

Step 10: Almost Done

Turn it over clockwise.

Now take the bottom flap of the diamond and fold its corners inside, just like the previous step.

Step 11: 4 More Times

Now take another flap of the triangle and repeat steps 7-10 on the remaining three flaps

Step 12: Make the Flower Bloom

Take a flap and fold it down. Repeat with the other flaps.

Step 13: Done!

There You have a flower!

It'll probably look irregular or some pars will look diffrent than others, but don't worry, you just need some practice.

After a while you'll start to see the difference.

Step 14: If You Want

If you want you could roll the petals with a pencil like so:

Introduction: How to Make Paper Flowers