Origami Folds: Starting a Dog

Video Transcript

"In this clip I will show you how to make the dog or the puppy. This is a design by Tomoko Fuse, and it can be found in her book, Traditional "Simple Traditional Origami". Starting with a diamond base, with these flaps toward you, take one of the flaps and do a pleat fold, out. At this point, it's simply an, you just kind of eyeball it. You do a pleat fold out. Same thing on the other side so that it's symmetric. These will become the hind legs of the puppy. Take this point, fold it up along this edge, and then do another pleat fold down, so that the tail, this is the tail of the puppy, comes back out. Turn the entire unit to the other side, and fold this top triangle down along these points, so that essentially, we're folding the unit in half. Now fold, pleat fold again, this top triangle at around this point. These are the four legs of our puppy. Pleat fold it out. At this point, turn the puppy so that it's horizontal, and we are going to do a rabbit ear fold with this triangle. Now, let's do the guiding creases. Take this edge, fold it to this edge; align it with that edge. Same thing with this side; align it with this edge, and now we have the three intersecting creases for our rabbit ear fold."