How to Make an Origami Sphinx

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Michael Webb on behalf of expertvillage.com and right now we’re going to be making a sphinx. In order to do this, the first thing that you want to do is make a crease from every corner to corner and every edge to edge. That’s just going to give us a lot of reference creases for some of our later folding. Okay and once you get that, open it up and you’re going to go along your center vertical crease and you’re going to fold each edge into the middle to make your piece of paper long and rectangular. Knowing this much like we did with the windmill, you want to take each edge and fold it to where it makes an X or creases down at the bottom and just do it for the bottom one. What you’re going to do is open it up and make your canoe shape and this is what’s going to form our sphinx. From there, from your center point to your end point, you’re going to want to take this and fold it inward until it makes a shape much like that and do the same for the other end. Now here on the bottom you already got from our creases earlier, two diagonal folds and you’re just going to fold these guys under until you get a triangular shape. Then you’re going to do a valley fold and just bring that under like so. Down here on the bottom we’re going to make the head of the sphinx by just make a fold. Imagine if you just got a line here to make another triangle there and you’re going to make that so that this point comes out over this line and do it once and do it twice just to secure the fold. Now you’re going to want to do an inverse fold on that and bring that in to make your head, now this is the start of the sphinx. Now this is the tricky part, this is going to be a pretty complicated pleat fold. So what you want to do from right here to right here, go ahead and make your first fold once and twice and you’ll make another one about half way up, right there and basically you’re just going to sort of open this up and sort of push that down there which can take a little bit of work and a few minutes just because of the creases. But once you get it, it kind of stuffs him down there and makes that neck a little less long and gives you a little more interesting folds to make a more sphinx like shape. Really mash those down and then to finish off the nose, you’re just going to do an inside reverse fold, mash that in there a little bit and open the nose up and push that in. There you have a finished sphinx. "