How to Make an Origami Butterfly

Video Transcript

"Butterflies are very pretty and a way to impress is to build an Origami Butterfly. My name is Robert Segundo and what we're going to do is we're going to take our piece of paper and fold one. What I've got here, is I've already got it pre-creased for the most part. Here's our square piece of paper and to get the creases you're looking for, what you're going to do is you're going to fold it in half like so, and then open it up and then fold your sides in, to meet that side like that. And, now what we're going to do, is we're going to fold it in half like this, to get a nice square, and then we're going to open it up and fold one side in, and then flip it over, and fold the other side in right there, towards our center line that we, center crease that we've created. Now, what we're going to do, is we're going to take this side here, actually let's take this side here, and we're going to open it up and crease our triangle, like so, now flip it over, and what we're going to do is we're going to crease this edge here, like so. And, then just kind of squash fold this here, like so. This is going to be the start of our base, so flip it back over to the back where we have our diamond shape like this, what we're going to do, is we're going to make a couple of folds here. We're just going to do some slight indention folds, which are going to give us the more of the tail shape of the Butterfly, on that side. Let's do the same thing on this side here. Try to make them as even as possible. Of course, I'm using a little bit thicker paper, so it's not going to fold quite as easy. There we go. Now, what we're going to do is just take this edge and right here along this point here, you've already got it pre-creased from the other folds. We're just going to fold it down, like so, and then fold it up. You see we're starting our Butterfly. Now, we're going to take this edge here and we're going to kind of fold it down out of the way so we have our line looking like that, do it on both sides. Now, what we're going to do, is just kind of angle fold this, something along those lines there. And now, what you want to do is you're going to kind of want to indent this here, going to indent rabbit ear fold like so, just to kind of give the appearance of the head here, so lay this down. And, that's more or less how you want it to look, and of course, you want to reverse fold that in there, but there it is, your Origami Butterfly. My name is Robert Segundo, and enjoy folding."