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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 Animals - Origami Pig

This is a fairly straight-forward origami pig and the first part is actually the same as the origami house.

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Origami Pig

Start off with a square origami paper, color side facing down.

Origami Pig Photo Diagrams 1

Fold it in half:

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Open the paper and you should see a crease in the center:

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Now, fold both halves to meet the crease in the center:

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Fold the paper in half again, this time from right to left.

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Open it back up:

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Fold both halves to meet the center crease like so:

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Pry open the top left corner:

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and press it down to make a triangle:
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Repeat the fold for the other 3 corners - top right, bottom right and bottom left. All 4 triangles meet in the center:

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Now, lift up half the right side from the center:

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and fold it over:

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Make a mountain fold - fold the bottom half (away from you) over to meet the top half:

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Bring the left tip over to meet the dash line shown in the picture below:

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Do the same for the other side:

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Repeat the fold for the right tip, bringing the right tip to meet the crease:

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Do the same for the other side:

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Make a slight crease on the right side and do a squash fold:

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Top view of the squash fold:

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Now, make a crease on the marked line shown below:

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and do another squash fold, this time pressing the fold down. Here's the top view:

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and you should get this:

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That's it! Here's the piggy:

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Origami Pig standing Photo Diagrams 27

 

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