Spring is coming. As the messenger of spring, cherry blossoms resemble a new life with their short bloom. In this season, let’s make cherry blossoms with paper to preserve this romance forever.
This origami cherry blossom replicates the beautiful pink flowers that cluster on a branch. It features five petals, each with slightly curled tips for a soft and lovely appearance. You can create a simple paper stick to serve as the branch for the cherry blossoms and attach your flower to it, making it look as if the petals are ready to fall and twirl gently in the wind.
If you are new to origami, start here from our beginner guide to know the basics and how to read the step-by-step instructions.
- Folding time: 20 minutes
- Paper: 15×15 cm
- Difficulty: Easy
Material
Get a piece of 15×15 cm origami square paper to old a lovely origami cherry blossom
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1
Place the paper with the red side facing down to begin folding, fold it in half horizontally from bottom to top. Fold the top layer’s right edge to align with the bottom edge, leaving a short crease shown by the black dotted line, and unfold it.
Step 2
Fold the top edge to align with the bottom edge, leaving a short crease shown by the black dotted line intersecting with the crease you made in the previous step, then unfold it.
Step 3
Fold the bottom left point to meet the intersection point, then fold the bottom right edge of the left layer to align with its bottom left edge, and finally, fold the bottom edge to align with the bottom right edge of the left layer.
Step 4
Flip the paper from left to right, fold the right edge to align with the left edge. Cut the paper along the edge indicated by the dotted line, and we only need the bottom triangle.
Step 5
Expand it and turn it over.
Step 6
Mountain fold the creases indicated by the red dotted lines, and valley fold the creases indicated by the black dotted lines, then bring the top and top right flaps together.
Step 7
Bring the left two flaps together, and the right three flaps together, then rotate the paper 90 degrees from back to front to lay it flat.
Step 8
Fold the top corner to meet the bottom edge’s midpoint, then fold it back to the top side to meet the top edge’s midpoint. Finally, unfold them.
Step 9
Rotate the paper 90 degrees from back to front and expand it.
Step 10
Mountain fold the creases indicated by the white dotted lines in the center. Turn the paper over, and mountain fold the creases indicated by the red dotted lines.
Step 11
Mountain fold the creases indicated by the red dotted lines, and valley fold the creases indicated by the black dotted lines. Press down the five edges and push the five edges of the smaller pentagon toward the center. Flatten the fold.
Step 12
Flatten the fold making there three flaps on the right side, and two flaps on the left side, then rotate the paper 90 degrees from back to front to lay it flat.
Step 13
Fold the top right corner of the three flaps on the right side along the black dotted lines. Then flip the paper from left to right, and repeat this for the left two flaps.
Step 14
Flip the paper from front to back.
Step 15
Mountain fold the crease indicated by the red dotted lines, then fold this crease toward the left side along the black dotted line [pictures1 and 2]
Fold the top layer’s left corners toward the right side, and flatten the fold all along the dotted lines [pictures 3 and 4]
Step 16
Take out the small flap, as you can see in the first and second pictures, and flatten it to make it on top.
Step 17
Repeat steps 15 to 16 for the other four sides.
Step 18
Fold down the top tip of the petal to form a small triangle, then valley fold the center vertical crease of this triangle, and mountain fold the left and right edges of this triangle.
Step 19
Repeat step 18 for the other four petals, and then flip the flower from left to right.
Step 20
Fold each pistil down a little.
Step 21
You can use 10cm of paper to make a few more cherry blossoms to make a layered branch.
What’s Next
After you have completed the origami cherry blossoms, you may be interested in other origami projects related to spring or nature. Here are two origami projects that can further enrich your origami “origami nature garden”:
Spring is not only the season for cherry blossoms but also the time for butterflies. Learning how to make origami butterfly allows you to capture the vibrant essence of spring. Origami butterfly and cherry blossoms complement each other and are very suitable for decorating your cherry blossoms.
How can you have beautiful cherry blossoms without an exquisite basket to hold them? Fold a practical and beautiful origami basket out of paper. Not only can it be used to hold your origami cherry blossoms, but making it out of paper with a floral pattern also adds a touch of spring.
Origami Butterfly
Origami Basket
