How to Fold an Origami Pyramid Box

In our collection of origami boxes, we include the basic square box, rectangle box and cute and round bunny box and cat box. This is a more interesting pyramid box. It is locked by a lovey heart and thus is perfect as a gift box.

Since it is a combined origami idea, you can match the two papers and make your own creation of pyramid box.

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: 15 minutes
Paper: 15×15 cm / 1, 7.5×7.5 cm / 1
Difficulty: Middle

Material

Get a 15×15 cm origami square paper and a 7.5×7.5 cm square paper. The large paper is for the box and the smaller one for the heart locker.

Origami Pyramid Box Video

Step by Step Instructions

Step 1

Firstly, take out the bigger paper, and start with the white side of the paper facing up. Fold it in half horizontally, crease it well then unfold.

Step 2

Fix the bottom right point, and take the right edge, fold it to the left, ensuring the top right point meets the horizontal crease. Crease it well then unfold it.

Step 3

Repeat this for the left side, creating an intersection point formed by the two creases at the top part.

Step 4

Fold the top edge down along the line extending parallel to both sides from this intersection.

Step 5

Fold the paper in half horizontally, crease it well then unfold.

Step 6

Fold the bottom left corner to the intersection point, formed by the middle crease you made in the previous step, and the crease you made in step 2, shown by the red point. Crease it well, and unfold it.

Step 7

Repeat this for the bottom right corner.

Step 8

Unfold the top layer.

Step 9

Fold the left and right edges to the center, along the line extending vertically to both sides from the intersection points on the left and right(shown by the dotted lines), to align with the line formed by connecting the two intersection points at the top and bottom(shown by the red line).

Step 10

Fold the bottom edge up along the first crease from the bottom.

Step 11

Tuck the two layers on the top in the pocket you just folded up.

Step 12

Push the top left and right corners to the center to create a vertical opening, forming a pyramid.

Step 13

Now take out the smaller red paper, we are going to fold a heart to decorate your pyramid. Start with the red side facing up, fold it in half vertically, crease it well then unfold.