Origami Aster
Origami Aster
Posted by The Dark Vixen
About
This 8-piece modular origami flower is great to hang on Christmas trees or just around the house. It looks awesome on both sides.
Designed by Michael G. LaFosse
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You Will Need (1 thing)
- 8 Pieces of Same-sized Paper
Steps (26 steps, 20 minutes)
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1
Take one of your pieces of paper and fold in half diagonal.
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2
Unfold, now you have a crease!
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3
Kite Base: Fold the bottom edges to the center crease you made in step 1.
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4
Unfold
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5
Fold the corners on the right and left to the creases you just made. Now fold along the crease you made in step 4.
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6
I should look like this. Turn your piece over.
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7
Fold the bottom the space between the top corners ( where the blue dot is on the picture)
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8
The finished module! Now make 8 of em
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9
Hey! Ur in my seat!
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The completed modules. Now time to assemble the aster.
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Take 2 of your modules and place them side by side. Now gently slide the right module into the left modules slot or pocket (the circled area)
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12
This is what it should look like now. Turn the pieces over.
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13
Now, carefully insert the module now on the rights indicated corner into the left modules slot.
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14
Step in progress....
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15
This is now what it should look like.
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Now, fold back along the edge of the right module ( where the black line is) . This will lock the 2 modules together!
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17
This is the step in progress....
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18
It should now look like this!
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19
Keep joining more modules too the 2 you just connected.
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20
Keep adding and locking in till you only have one module left.
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21
Be very careful when connecting this one.
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Almost there....
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Lock them together.....and....
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Done! Both sides are equally cool
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I hope you enjoyed this turtorial! If you need help or if anything is confusing just leave a comment below and I’ll see how I can help you!
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Feel free to hang them too!