How to Make Origami of Equilateral Triangles With Pockets on Each Sides

This instructable is made for school projects in Mathematics particularly the Geometry. Hands-on activity for your students in Math or yourself who loves paper folding.

This Equilateral triangle has three pockets of each edge. There is a reason for this. After learning this activity, and if you will check my future posts, you will discover how to make origami of the five Platonic Solids as well as hexagon and soccer ball using equilateral triangles.

This tutorial can be watched at YouTube.

Mahalo for visiting! Now lets start crafting.

Material:

A square piece of Paper

A square paper means all edges or sides are equal in measure.

Start either front or back as you wish.

Make a crease. This will be used for the next step.

Grab a corner of the square and place it on the crease in Step 3. Make a crease when the top right corner is folded properly. Look at image and compare your work.

Check you paper for crease.

Make a second triangular fold to the other side. Refer to the previous steps.

Unfold. See image.

Your paper should look like the image above.

It should look like the image. If not redo the previous steps.

• Take the bottom corner and fold. It should lie on the midpoint of the upper edge. See image.
• Fold that extra part back as shown.

But we are not done yet. The back part should be inserted to some pockets made when going through the steps.

Check for three pockets on the each sides or edges!

Very challenging steps but you made it! Did you?

Now, we can use these equilateral triangles in forming regular solids!