Origami Balloon
Materials
- 1 piece of paper
- Scissors
- Pencil crayons/felt pens/crayons
Colouring Your Paper
- Take your pencil crayons/felt pen/crayons and colour both sides of your piece of paper with whatever colour you want
Getting Started
- Take your piece of paper and place it so it is vertical
Making a Square
- Take the bottom right corner and fold it so it is almost to the top left corner (about 2 inches away)
- Cut the top piece of paper off, so that when you unfold the paper it makes a square
Making a Smaller Square
- Fold your piece of paper in half so it makes a rectangle
- Turn your paper around so it is vertical, and then fold it in half so it makes a square
Making a Triangle
- Turn your piece of paper so that the openings are on the left side and bottom
- Lift up the top flap so it is sticking up
- Put your hand in the opening, take your other hand and push on the top of the flap
- Then there should be a triangle looking shape
Making More Triangles
- Take the right flap that looks like a upside down triangle and fold it up
- Do that same step to the left flap
More Folding
- Flip your paper around so the diamond shape is on the bottom, with the openings to the right
- Take the bottom point and fold it up just to the line
- Now flip your paper around so the diamond shape is at the top, with the opening on the left
- Take the bottom point and fold it up just to the line
Finishing It Off
- Put your finger in your last little triangle shapes so they are more open
- Take your right little flap and fold it into the little triangle right above it
- Take your left little flap and fold it into the little triangle right above it
Doing It to the Other Side
- Flip your paper over so that the shape you just made is under the top piece of paper
- The openings of the remaining flap of paper should be on the bottom and the right side
- Lift up the flap so it is sticking up
- Put your hand in the opening, take your other hand and push on the top of the flap
- Then there should be a triangle shape
Finishing It Off
Blowing Up Your Balloon
- Look at the two pointy ends, and there should be a little hole on one of the ends
- Put your mouth to the hole, and gently blow up your paper
- Then your should have a balloon
- DON’T worry if yours doesn’t look perfect, my first one didn’t look that great