Origami Square Base
The origami square base is a starting point for many neat origami pieces, such as birds and frogs.
It is simple to learn and to make.Start with a square piece of paper.
Fold it on the diagonals, as well as on the North-South and East-West lines, as shown below. Note that the type of fold is important.
A mountain fold means folding the halves away from you, so that the fold sticks up from the table, like a mountain.
A valley fold means folding the halves away towards you, so that the fold is lower than the halves, like a valley.
Place the colored side of the paper upwards, then fold the diagonals as valley folds, and the N-S and E-W folds as mountain folds, below left.
Now it will be very easy to simply collapse the piece of paper along the fold lines.
It will collapse right into a square folded piece of paper. This is your square base!
