Folding Paper Flowers

Video Transcript

"There are many flowers you can make with origami and today I'm going to show you how to make one of them. My name is Robert Segundo and I'm going to show you how to make the traditional origami flower. So look down here, what we're going to do is I already have my paper pre-folded, and I'm starting off right now in the water bomb base. And as you can see I've already got all the creases ready for what we're fixing to do so we can kind of move through this rather quickly. What we're going to do is we're going to take the leg up on the water bomb base and bring it down and just kind of squish folded like so to where it forms this kite shape here. What we're going to do is we're going to do that on all four of the legs, just open it up and squish fold it like so. As long as your paper wants to do it, there we go. Fold it over, I'm just going to do the same thing, turn it back over to this side here, open it up, do the same thing here. Now we have all four sides squish folded like so, and now what we're going to do is we're going to take and we're going to petal fold these, so what we're going to do is on this side here we're going to fold it up like so. And then open it back up and then just fold it down like so. And so you have the diamond shape here, as you can see I've got a big space there but we're not going to worry about that too much. It'll all work out in the end. So what we're going to do is we're going to petal fold all of them the same way. And to petal fold them all you're going to do is just fold these two edges to the center like so, open them back up, open this up, open it all the way up to the point, and it should just fall right back into place. Let's do this last one here. Already got it pre-folded so it's going to happen quickly. Now what we're going to do is now that we've done this we're going to take and just take the petals and flatten them back out like so. Just open that up, there we go. Now what we're going to do is this is our open end and this our closed end, we're going to take from the closed end, we're going to fold that line to the center of our base here. Just fold it in like so, like so, just flip this over, open this up to this diamond shape here, fold it in, fold it in, open it up, fold it in, fold it in like so. Now what you're going to do is these are the petals so what you're going to do is you're going to fold them down, as far as they're going to go, and you're going to leave these pieces right here standing up so let's do that, do that, you're going to do it to all four of them, and then this is what you're going to have and basically you just open it up, let your petals pop out, and there you, your traditional origami flower. Play around with it, have fun, and enjoy."