Origami Patterns for Kids

Origami is a Japanese art of folding the paper in order to make different attractive items such as animals, birds, flowers, people, trees and miniature houses. A word ‘oru’ means ‘to fold’ and ‘kami’ means a ‘paper’. It is a very interesting craft that people of all ages enjoy. You can create a wide variety of origami patterns with your creativity and imagination. Kids just love to enjoy converting a plain sheet of paper into various fascinating objects.

Origami involves several folds given to a square sheet of paper. You can use different types of paper with beautiful colors and prints, such as flowers, fun stars or sparkles. What you will require to start with origami patterns is a piece of paper, craft pattern and a pair of scissors. There are some special origami kits, which consist of square sheets of paper, generally colored on one side. The paper is very thin, so that it can be folded many times.

Origami Patterns for Kids

There are a number of easy origami patterns for kids. These crafts help the kids develop their finger skills as well as their concentration and coordination. Kids can learn different origami patterns from the experts or by joining the origami classes. There are a number of websites, which provide useful information about simple, easy to make origami patterns for kids. Given below are some of the interesting origami patterns.

Origami Floating Boat

First take a rectangular sheet of paper and fold it into two equal halves. Fold it again, in the same way as you fold a handkerchief.

Then open the second fold to form a crease at the center. Now make two triangles on the same side. One side of each triangle should touch the center crease. Now it would look like a house.

Fold the paper’s lower rectangular edges outwards. Then open this fold to make a hat, using your fingers. Take care that the paper should not tear.

Then bring together the corners of the brim of hat. You should push the edges outwards. Now squash the hat to form the shape of a square.

The lower corner of the square is to be folded upwards, flipping it over. Repeat the same process for other corner.

Now open up the folded triangles, so that the corners are combined together. You have to squash this triangle to form a square. Then pull the outer corner of the square to form a shape of a boat.

Origami Airplane

A rectangular sheet of paper is required to make any origami pattern, so the same is needed for making an origami plane. First fold the sheet down the middle and then immediately unfold it. You have to create only a crease.

Then fold each of the corners towards the center crease line in order to form triangles on the top two corners.

Now fold along the crease line to form the body of the airplane.

The wings of the airplane can be formed by folding each side. The corners of the wings should be folded to create a triangle on either side.

Now your airplane is ready to fly!