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Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day both fall on February 14th in 2010 - very special indeed!

Following the Chinese Zodiac calendar, we're ending the Year of the Ox and ushering in the Year of the Tiger on Feb 14th.

Celebrate by folding your own chinese zodiac origami tiger! Other origami chinese zodiac signs include ox(cow), rabbit, dragon, snake.

For Valentine's Day we have plenty of origami hearts and origami flowers for your special someone. So get busy and start folding!

Origami Cup

The origami cup is easy to make, and useful too. You could use it to hold coins, candy or yes, even water (though not for very long!)

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Start with a square 6" x 6" (15cm x 15cm) piece of origami paper.

If it is colored origami paper, put the colored side face down on the table as shown below.

Then fold along the diagonal to give a triangle.

Now fold one corner of the triangle upwards to meet the opposite side.

The angle there should be about 90 degrees.

Origami Cup

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origami-cup-folded-triangle

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Now fold one of the top corners downwards.

Then flip the piece over, and fold the corner labeled A up as shown.

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Then flip the piece over again. Now fold the other top corner down on the backside.

piece flipped over

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Now just use your fingers to open up your origami cup!

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