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Halloween Pumpkin Origami

"Carve" up your own pumpkin with this Halloween pumpkin origami! Both adults and kids are sure to love it!

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All right, bring out your orange origami paper and let's begin....

Halloween Pumpkin Origami

 

square of origami paper, ready to fold   

With a square orange origami, fold it in half like so:

origami paper folded in half

Then, fold the paper into half again:

folded in half again

 

Open it up and you should see this:

origami paper open

 

Then fold the paper diagonally into a triangle like so:

origami paper folded diagonally

And fold that in half to get a smaller triangle:

folded in half diagonally again

 

Open up the paper and you should see the following:

mountain and valley folds

 

Now start to collapse the pre-folded piece of paper. collapsing folded paper

further collapsing of folded paper

 

 

You will end up with the folded triangle shown below.  This piece occurs so often in origami that it has its own name, the balloon base.  

 

origami water balloon base

 

one corner of balloon base folded upwards

 

Now fold each of the four corners upwards as shown in the next three photos:

two corners of balloon base folded upwards

all four corners of balloon base folded upwards

 


 

Now fold the four horizontal corners into the center as shown:

horizontal corner folded into centerline

        four horizontal corners folded into centerline

 

 

Use your finger to expand the little pocket as shown below.  You are going to tuck the flap into the pocket. 

However, the flap must first be folded in two to make it small enough for the pocket.pocket and flap to be tucked in

          flap being folded to fit pocket

 

This sequence shows the flap folded, then tucked in.

folded flap

        flap tucked in

 

Now fold and tuck in the other three flaps.all four flaps tucked in

Now fold the front facing 2 flaps together so that the plain side is showing like below:

origami halloween pumpkin plain side

 

Now draw your pumpkin face on this plain side:

draw pumpkin face on origami

 

Finally expand the balloon as shown below...

expand pumpkin

 

and Voila! a pumpkin!

origami halloween pumpkin

 

Add a "stem" to complete your own pumpkin:

origami halloween pumpkin completed

Happy Halloween!

 

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