With the development of origami, there are lots of advanced, complex and realistic origami projects.
But we believe fun and creativity of origami also exist in easy and simple models. If you are new in the world of origami, starting with simple projects like cranes, boats, some basic shapes or animal faces can help to build the confidence. Most of our easy origami ideas can be finished within 10 minutes and needs around 15 steps.
Each of the model have detailed step by step instructions and video tutorial. So let’s folding together.
Easy classic origami ideas
There are lots of most popular and classic origami ideas such as origami boats, airplanes or butterfly. Following are most popular ones.
Easy Animal Faces
Animal face is the easiest project to start if you are new to origami. Those origami animal faces are flat and thus you can combine them with other crafts. For example our simple penguin can be used in to make a family card with larger and smaller ones.
Easy Origami Animals
You may see super complex origami animals from Modern origami, most of the traditional origami animals are easy quite cute. Following are our best popular easy origami Animals.
Easy Origami Insects
Insects especially butterfly are another popular group in the world of origami.
Origami Fish and Sea Creature
Easy fish, seahorse and lots of other sea creatures are best ideas if you want to make a sea creature gift card or a paper book.
Easy Origami Bird
Easy Fruit and Vegetables
Easy Origami Clothes
Easy Origami for Christmas
Easy Origami Flowers
Tips for beginning your origami world
For new beginners, following are some tips from us.
- Choose a clean and flat workspace as your operation area.
- Place additional tools like origami bone folder, ruler or paper clips on the color of the space.
- Start with clean dry paper. We will recommend starting with standard origami paper which is thin enough for folding. Use a two side origami paper can help to recognize the front and back side.
- Try combined models. Don’t be scared by the combined models, most of them are super easy with lots of repetition.
Hope you enjoy our list of easy origami ideas, we welcome any suggestion or recommendations. Happy folding!