The first step to making an origami unicorn is the paper. You must start out with a square piece of paper. It can be any size, color, or design. These are some of my favoriate designs for making origami unicorns:
1. Once you have carfully selected your paper, make these four creases.
3. Flip both the outer sides inside the triangle...
4. Pull up one of the flaps...
5. Then flaten it.
7. Next, flip your paper upside down and fold the two top edges to the middle.
9. Unfold the last two steps and slowly pull open the middle edge...
...it should end up like this.
11. Now repeat steps 7-10 on all four sides that look like this...
12. Then, making sure that you have four flaps on each side, cut on the darkened line shown in the picture...
13. Now turn your figure upside down so it looks like this.
15. then pull it down like this and crease it (this will be your unicorns tail).
17. On the top left do the same thing only don't go as far down. (this will be your unicorns head)...
18. Now open your unicorn's tail, and fold both sides of it to the middle...
19. Fold your tail in half again so it looks like this.
... then in facing back
22. Fold the section you just cut upward.
... it should look like this when done.
25. Pull up the triangles on both sides...
26. Now fold up all legs...
27. Now fold all the legs in half (from bottom to top).
... when done it should look like this
... and fold the bottom part of each triangle inside.
2. Fold your paper in half so that it forms a triangle (make sure that your pattern side is facing out.)
... when finished it should look like this
... and open it like this.
6. Repeat steps 4-5 on all the flaps until your paper looks like this.
8. Then fold the bottom to the top
... while doing this, slowly push in the two sides...
10. Fold the small triangle upward
... once you are done it should look like this.
...it should look like this once you are done.
14. Take the top left section, and put your finger in the middle of it.
16. Congradulations you are now half way to completing your origami unicorn!
... when finished it should look like this
... when done it should look like this.
20. Now fold your tail out in the other direction...
21. Now open the head and cut the middle section of the top layer half way up
23. Fold the tip of the head strait down...
24. Then cut off half of the part of the head that is facing down.
... it should look like this when done.
... and tuck the two triangles, coming out from under the legs, back underneath.
28. Fold all legs straight down...
29. Next, fold the two triangles down...
Now you have scsessfully created an origami unicorn, and hopefully you did so with a minimum amount of frustration. :)
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