Easy Origami 8-Petal Flower Step-by-Step Guide

Today, we have another fun origami photo tutorial that shows you how to fold a beautiful origami flower with individually folded petals.

Paper flowers are one of the most popular origami projects to tackle, and the end product is perfect to use as a decoration on birthdays, and anniversaries, or to add a personal touch to a thoughtful Valentine’s Day gift.

And the type of flower? Well, to me, it’s very much like a poinsettia, and I love them!

Follow these easy steps and in no time, you’ll have a stunning eight-petaled flower to be proud of. It’s quickly become my favorite traditional origami flower to fold.

We have a range of other origami tutorial blog posts, including, Origami Fish, Origami Cat, Origami Bunny, and Origami Crane.

An 8 petal origami flower from Skip to my Lou. — Beautiful!

Why Making an Origami Flower is a Good Idea

Not only is origami an excellent stress reliever for adults to try, but it benefits children too, teaching them to concentrate on a task while also helping them with problem-solving and building patience.

Supplies

You will need the following supplies:

A pair of scissors
4 pieces of square paper (lightweight paper is best as it is easy to fold).
Glue
A paper dot
A piece of ribbon

Video: How To Fold An Origami Flower

Step-by-Step Instructions For Folding an Origami Flower

Step 1: Start with your first piece of square origami paper. These will be folded into the shape of the flower petals. It must be square, as a rectangular piece of paper won’t work as well. You can see paper size example in the image below.

Two hands holding a red square piece of paper. — You need 4 square pieces of origami paper like this.

Step 2: Turn it at a 45-degree angle and fold along the paper’s center, as shown in the image below.

Two hand folding the red square origami paper to form two triangles. — Fold along the center line to form two triangles.

Step 3: Now cut along the paper’s center line and keep the two resulting triangles.

A pair of scissors cutting along the fold line in the red square piece of paper to form two triangles. — Cut along the fold.

Step 4: Take one of the paper triangles and hold it with the longest side to the left, as shown in the image below. Fold the top corner of the triangle downwards, as show in the image below.

Two hands making the first origami folds for a paper petal. — Now the folding begins!

Step 5: Cut off the end as shown in the image below.

A pair of scissors cutting off the end of the triangle after the fold has been made. — Cut off the end.

A hand holding the paper left after the back end of the triangle has been cut off. — You are left with a shape like this.

Step 6: Fold the paper as shown in the images below. This is the trickiest part but it’s easy to follow in the video, so be sure to watch that.

Two hands forming the first part of the petal. — Time to start forming the first part of the petal.

Step 7: Now glue.

Two hands glueing the first part of the petal. — The glue will keep everything together.

Step 8: It’s time to finish the petal. Again, this is pretty tricky, but the video shows everything clearly. If you are having trouble, be sure to watch this section of the folding procedure.

Two hands forming the next part of the petal. — More folding!

Step 9: The petal is taking shape with a few more folds. Again, the video shows this clearly.

A hand holding the final petal form. — The first petal is done, only 7 more to go!

Step 10: Repeat steps 1 to 9 until you have eight petals flaps. Now it’s time to glue them all together. Apply glue to the square folded bottom section of the petal and start gluing them to each other.

A hand holding three finished petals. — Once you have eight petals, glue them together.

A hand glueing the petals together. — Can you see the flower taking shape?

A hand holding the flower with all 8 petals glued together. — Almost done.

Step 11: Glue the paper dot to the center of the flower.

A paper dot forms the centre of the flower. — Glue the paper dot to form the center of the flower.

Step 12: Attach the ribbon. Your paper flower is complete!

A ribbon is added to the origami flower which is now complete. — Add the ribbon. Your beautiful flower is complete.

Additional Ideas For Your Paper Flower

You can add different types of stems. If I am not going to hang them using the cord, I like to attach a chopstick to my folded flower to act as a stem. The kids love it!

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