If you are searching for origami food, here is a great list for you to refer. We include some of the most common origami food ideas including the flat version as well as the 3D version.
You can use those as attachment of a craft homework or as a holiday decorations.
1. Origami 3D Apple
This is a cute origami 3D apple with a lovely apple leaf. It shows the details of a delicious apple. You can fold this as a gift for Christmas.
Material: 2 pieces of paper
Difficult: middle
2. Origami Flat Apple
This is a much easier version for kids. It is a flat origami apple that can match with other origami fruits and food to make a book.
Difficult: easy, kids friendly
3. Origami Pumpkin
A cute origami pumpkin made with only one piece of paper. Then color the top leaf with a marker pen. This is an ideal craft folding idea for Halloween.
Material: 1 piece of paper
Difficult: easy
4. Origami Poached Egg
Poached egg is an essential ingredient for lots of games and this is a well poached egg tutorial.
This cool and interesting origami boomerang mi
Material: a piece of square paper
Difficult: easy, kids friendly
5. Origami Tomato
A cut origami paper tomato with lovely green stem. It is super easy and require only several steps of folding.
Difficult: super easy and kids friendly
6. Origami Banana
This little bunch of origami banana shows the details of each piece and a joined top. It is as simple as the previous flat apple and tomato.
Difficult: easy
7. Origami Mushroom
A super cut origami mushroom share the color of a shiitake mushroom. A brown cap and a white stipe.
Difficult: easy, kids friendly
8. Origami Pears
A flat fresh pear with a lovely small stem on top. Make some dots with markers to make it more realistic.
Difficult: easy, kids friendly
9. Origami Birthday Cake
If you want to make some big project of origami food, we will recommend this origami birthday cake. It is assembled by different parts including the cake body, the candle, card greetings and decorative flowers. The folding is not difficult itself but it presents fabulous result.
Difficult: easy, kids friendly
Afterthoughts
Folding some lovely food with paper is a great way of teaching children to learn the shape, texture and details of those natural gifts. We covered from the basic ingredients like tomato, eggplants, apple and pumpkin to cooked food like poached egg and birthday cake. Happy folding!