Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower

This is a modular 5-petal origami flower which means you do need to fold a unit of the same design 5 times and then assemble the units (without glue) to form the flower. 

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 1: Start with a 3 inch x 3 inch (10cm x 10cm) square paper, color side down. You could use the regular 6 inch paper but for this origami, it actually looks better with the smaller size paper.

Fold paper in half on the vertical axis. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 2: Fold both the top right and left corners to the center. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 3: Fold both the top right and left corners to meet the diagonal creases you made in Step 2.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 4: Fold the top right and left corners to the center again.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 5: Fold both sides to meet the center crease.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 6: Fold the bottom right corner to the left edge.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 7: Unfold paper to what you had at the beginning of Step 5.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 8: Make the diagonal folds as indicated below.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 9: Now make a valley fold and fold down the top layer as shown. Press paper flat on the edges.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 10: Bring the left side over to the center. Crease well.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 11: Fold paper in half by making a mountain fold. Crease well.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 12: Make the diagonal fold as indicated below. Crease well.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 13: One more valley fold...

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 14: This completes one modular unit. Repeat Steps 1 to 12 and make a total of 5 units.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Step 15: Watch the video below for the assembly.

Origami Modular 5-Petal Flower Video

And here's the completed origami modular 5-petal flower!

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Waterbomb a basic

Cube (Waterbomb)

Just a simple cube folded out of a single square sheet of paper. This model is also called waterbomb.

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You have to start with a Waterbomb Base.

1. Valley fold the sides to the middle.

2. Repeat step 1 on the other side.

3. Valley fold the left and the right point to the middle.

4. Repeat step 3 on the other side.

5. Valley fold the points down to the middle. Repeat on the other side.

6. Precrease and then tuck the little triangles inside the pockets. Repeat on the other side.

7. Precrease. Then bring the cube into form by pushing down the top and bottom points, pulling the flaps a little bit apart and blowing air into the hole at the bottom.

8. The finished cube.

Basic folds of origami

Basic Folds

Don't worry if you don't manage or understand how to do one of the following folds at once. After having folded some models you will know them all by heart. It's all a question of practise.

Valley Fold

The valley fold is formed by folding the paper toward oneself. An arrow shows where to fold the piece of paper to.

Symbol: dashed line

Mountain Fold

The mountain fold is formed by folding the paper away from oneself.

Symbol: alternating dashed and dotted line

Petal Fold

The petal fold lifts a point and brings it upwards so that the two edges of the point lie together. It is best to prefold both layers of paper along the shown valley and mountain folds before making the petal fold.

The best example for this fold is the Birdbase.

Rabbit Ear Fold

Prefold along the three valley folds first. Then fold the two sides down to the baseline (see arrows). Fold the top point to one side to make the mountain fold. (Take care that you fold the top point to the right side where the mountain fold is set.)

Squash Fold

Prefold both sheets of paper along the valley and mountain fold. Then open the model, fold one layer of paper along the valley fold and flatten the model using the mountain fold.

The big white arrow tells you to open the model.

(Inside) Reverse Fold

Prefold both sheets of paper in both directions (mountain and valley). Then open the model a little bit and bring the top point down so that the mountain fold edge becomes a valley fold edge.

Outside Reverse Fold

It is similar to the inside reverse fold except the layers of the paper have to be wrapped around outside the point.

Crimp Fold

A crimp is used as a way of incorporating two reverse folds to change the direction of a flap or point. In most cases it is easiest just to make two reverse folds one after the other (precrease both folds before).

The lines next to the image should show you how the layers lie after folding.

Sink Fold

The sink fold is a method of blunting a point that has no open edges. The fold should first be precreased. Then carefully open the model and tuck the point inside. Flatten the model afterwards along existing creases.