Starting Origami Cat with Fish Base

Series Summary

Origami, a form of visual art defined by the folding of paper, originated in Japan in the 1600s. Since then, this ancient art has become a popular hobby for many around the globe. Origami has been popular in the United States and England since the early 1900s. It has always been regarded as a complicated and delicate art form, but our expert will teach you step-by-step how to fold origami in such a way that it is easily accessible to beginners.

If you are looking for a fun and beautiful art project to enjoy alone or with your children, this free video series is the thing for you. Our expert will teach you how to make an origami cat. Perhaps you've already mastered the origami boxes and origami flowers and are ready to move on to a project a little more advanced. Out expert will take you through each step of the folding process in order to create a unique, delicate origami cat.

Video Transcript

"To do a origami cat we are going to first start with a fish base. What we are going to do is take our paper that we have here we are going to fold it like so. Diagonal. Making sure that all of our points line up it is very important. If they don't line up now by the time that we get to the end of the model they would be really out. So there we go. I'm going to go ahead and crimp that with my nail really good. We are going to open it up and we would fold the inside like so. Like this and I would take this side and do the exact same thing. There we go and we started our fish base. "