Origami Flowers

1. Turn the paper to look like a diamond. (Use a square sheet of paper. 3”x3”)

2. Bring the bottom corner of the diamond to the top corner of the diamond, and fold it into a triangle. Run your fingernail along the crease and all future creases.

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3. Starting with the right bottom corner, bring it to the top tip of the triangle and fold.

4. Do the same with the left side to make a diamond like so.

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5. Take the right side of the diamond and fold it down at an angle to match the right bottom edge of the diamond.

6. Repeat the last step again on the left side to form this shape.

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7. Gently unfold the side you just made and insert your finger. It is like a little ice cream cone. Push this cone flat.

8. The cone is now flat. Repeat again on the other side to make it symmetrical.

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9. On both sides, fold the tips of the flat cones down like so.

10. Fold the flattened cones in half toward the center of the diamond like so.

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11. Pick up the origami and adhere the two sides of the cone together with a glue dot. You have made one petal. Repeat the entire process to make 5-6 total petals for each flower. Connect the six petals together with glue dots to make one flower.

12. With a glue dot, adhere a pipe cleaner or piece of floral wire between two of the bottom petals to form the stem. Trim the pipe cleaner length as desired and add to a vessel or vase. (The flowers below were created with magazine pages.)