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Origami Paper

We use standard size 6 inch x 6 inch (15cm x 15cm) square origami paper for this site unless stated otherwise. If you can, use different types of origami paper to change the look of the finished origami and have fun with it!

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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. 

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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.

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

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From Christo in Kannur:

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From Emily of Tarneit, Australia " This is my first cup i made, it looked pretty good, so i made another five of them! :) "

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From reader in Cedar Falls:

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From reader in West Palm Beach " Doing the oragami cup is very easy and fun.It's my first time doing oragami and I think it's my new hobby!! "

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From A. in Gold Canyon " Origami Cup...sime and so fun to make!"

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From MJ in Calamba:

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From Loki in Summerland Point " I am pretty sure this is one of the smallest origami cups ever! "

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From Mildred in Kavala, Greece " the origami cup, with fresh roses. "

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From Gabby in McKinney TX " Hello kitty and Keroppi in hiding in the cups!"

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From Rashmi in Nagpur "Origami Cup"

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From reader in NJ:

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From Chioma in Valley Center " I'm submitting an origami cup that I made myself! Do you like it? I hope so! "

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From Darby in Everett " These are my origami cups. The biggest one is 8.5" square, and the smallest one is 1 cm square! "

Wow, we can barely see the smallest one!

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From reader in Monsey " I needed a cup to drizzle glaze onto a cake. Here is the origami cup you showed us. "

Amazing!

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From Lily in Cornilus " this is a cup being compared to an average size eraser. As you can see it is extremely tiny "

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From reader in Ascot:

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