How to Make an Origami Heart Out of Binder Paper
Imagine you are sitting in class, bored and wanting to send an object of affection to the object of your affections. All you have in front of you is binder paper. It's fairly simple to make an origami heart out of binder paper, after you use a simple trick to make the paper into a square. After that, it's just a few simple folds to make the sheet of paper into a heart.
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Instructions
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Fold the top left corner of a sheet of binder paper down to the right side. There will be a small strip at the bottom of the page and a right-angle triangle above that.
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Fold the strip up to the bottom of the triangle, then unfold. Flip the piece over, and repeat that crease. Unfold the paper.
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Cut the strip off the bottom of the sheet of paper. If you don't have a pair of scissors, you can fold the crease a couple of more times, then lick the edge and pull the paper apart.
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Fold the left edge of the page to the right side. Unfold, and fold the top down to the bottom. Unfold the paper.
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Fold the top and bottom edges of the paper into the center crease.
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Fold the top left and right corners down to the bottom of the paper. Unfold, and repeat with the bottom corners up to the top.
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Fold the left and right sides of the paper into the center point, where the X shapes you just folded meet. Unfold.
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Fold the top left corner of the model in toward the center, so the top edge of the paper meets the fold you just made. Repeat with the other three corners of the model.
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Bring the top left corner and the bottom left corner of the model together. Repeat with the right side. Bring the two sides of the model together, and bring the triangles underneath together. The piece should begin to look like a heart.
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Bring the two top points down, and fold the corners in to make a point. Fold the tips of the corner in slightly to give it a rounded appearance. Flip the model over, and repeat. The model should look like a heart now.
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