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Summary: A frog base is a very common base used to begin an origami model. Learn tips from an origami expert on how to finish folding this base in this free video clip.
Justina Danison has been doing origami since she was a child. She learned through demonstration from her mother. Her interest kept her flipping through origami books and learning new...read more
"Turn the unit to the other side, fold this flap to the left, lift up this section and squash. Now, for each section we are going to do a petal fold. Following the creases that we had made before, lift up this layer fold, and push the sides in, following the creases that we had made. And then for the top, take your thumb and index finger, and kind of form a point, like this, and then flatten it, and this center crease should align with the center crease beneath. That's a petal fold. We are going to do this for all four sections. Lift up, petal fold; flatten. Now open it to the section that we haven't petal fold yet by flipping this flap to the left, and opening it to this section; petal fold. Now turn the unit over. Open it to the section that we haven't petal fold. This is our last petal fold. And once we do that we have our frog base."
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