A cute, colorful Christmas wreath can be a great decoration for your holiday Christmas. Let’s make a paper Christmas wreath with very easy and simple basic origami elements.
The best part of this paper wreath is you can make lots of color combinations to make each of them quite unique. As shown in the following picture, in addition to the traditional Christmas green and red, we also make gray as the focus color and match it with pink, golden and blue.
To make it even cutter, attach an origami bow on top. Once finished, you can hang them on Christmas tree, or on a garland even the window.
Besides, it can also be used as a hair accessory. Make one for each of your family members and spend the holidays happily together. Finally, don’t forget that it’s customizable, using different colors and patterns of paper to create a wreath that fits different holiday themes.
- Folding time: 30 minutes
- Paper: 15cm x 15cm / 19
- Total steps: 14
- Difficulty: Intermediate
Material
Get 19 pieces of 15cm x 15cm origami square paper, 18 for the wreath part and one for the bow.
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1
Take out one of the papers to begin the wreath part, place it with the desired display color side down, fold it in half horizontally, and unfold it. Then, fold it in half vertically, and unfold it.
Step 2
Fold the left and right sections of the top edge to align with the middle vertical crease.
Step 3
Fold up the bottom edge along the dotted line.
Step 4
Fold up the bottom edge to align with the bottom edge of the top triangle, leaving a crease, and unfold it.
Step 5
Unfold the bottom part.
Step 6
Fold down the top triangle along the crease indicated by the dotted line.
Step 7
Fold up the triangles on the left and right sides along the dotted lines.
Step 8
Fold down the top edge along the crease indicated by the dotted line, then rotate it 180 degrees from back to front.
Step 9
Fold the paper in half vertically from left to right.
Step 10
Fold the remaining 17 pieces of 20cm x 20cm origami square paper in the same manner.
Step 11
Place two modules as the pictures show, then tuck the upper layer of the right module into the pocket of the left module, as well as the backside. Finally, assemble them well.
Step 12
Assemble the remaining modules in the same manner.
Step 14
Glue the bow on your wreath.
We also offer origami another wreath with a different design: the Origami Leaf Wreath, and it is suited for autumn and Thanksgiving Day.
Alternatively, you can fold some other origami projects to decorate your wreath. For example, the Origami Christmas Star, glued on the wreath, looks more fantastic. Or an Origami Santa, it is a cute addition to your Christmas decor, either placed within the wreath or as a separate decoration.
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.
Origami Leaf Wreath
Origami Christmas Star
Origami Santa
What’s Next
That’s your lovely origami Christmas wreath, you may want more different origami challenges, so next you can explore other easy and interesting origami ideas. Enjoy folding!
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My partner and I loved making these! Thank you for your excellent tutorial, it’s a good and fun thing to learn, and we can decorate our home with these 😀
Hi Paola,
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I’m so happy to hear that you and your partner enjoyed making these together. It’s wonderful that you can now decorate your home with your beautiful origami creations! 😀
Wishing you both a very Merry Christmas!
Bruh
Haha, hope you enjoyed the tutorial, Tomas!