Origami ideas perfect for April that will captivate older kindergarteners!
When April comes, children in the senior kindergarten class feel like enjoying origami that’s perfect for the new season.
Origami is popular as an activity where children can experience a sense of achievement while developing dexterity and concentration.
Spring-themed motifs like tulips and butterflies look especially vibrant when finished.
In this article, we’ve gathered a wide range of origami ideas perfect for April.
We also share tips that make them easy for senior kindergarteners to fold and hints for incorporating them into childcare settings, so please use them as a reference!
Older kindergarteners will be captivated! A collection of origami ideas perfect for April (1–10)
Four-leaf clover you can make with a single sheet!NEW!
There’s a saying that four-leaf clovers bring good luck, and they’re a popular springtime plant.
On warm days, you might see children in the fields enjoying a hunt for four-leaf clovers.
How about making a four-leaf clover out of origami? First, make diagonal creases, then insert your finger into the pocketed sections and open them up.
Fold it into a triangle and trim the edges into curves.
Next, fold the center into a triangle, open it up, and adjust the shape.
It’s very easy to make, so even children who aren’t confident with origami can give it a try.
It’s great as a lucky charm or as a decoration for your room.
Easy! Recommended in spring: How to fold a horsetail (origami)NEW!
Let’s try making spring-like horsetail (tsukushi) with origami.
For this model, cut a 15 cm sheet of origami into thirds, so you can make three stems from one sheet! First, place the origami horizontally and fold it in half by bringing the left and right edges together.
Open it after creasing, then with the colored side facing up, fold the right edge to the crease.
Flip the paper over, fold the top and bottom edges inward, and make it into thirds.
Next, make a pleated fold (accordion fold) along the boundary where the color changes, and do the same pleated fold in the middle of the colored section.
Then fold the top and bottom edges of the colored section inward to make it narrower, and round the four corners of the white section by folding them in.
Draw patterns with a pen, and your tsukushi is complete!
How to fold a cute bush warblerNEW!
This is a spring bird, a Japanese bush warbler, made from a single sheet of origami paper.
First, fold the paper into a triangle, then unfold it once you’ve made a crease.
Next, fold the two bottom edges up to meet the crease.
Where the center overlaps, lift the corner up, then squash it down along the crease.
This becomes the bird’s wing.
From here, continue folding along the creases and edges of the paper to shape it into a bush warbler.
Once you’ve made the wings, there are no difficult steps, so go ahead and finish your charming bush warbler and enjoy a touch of spring.
Cute mini basketNEW!
Let’s make a mini basket for small items using construction paper.
Prepare a 15 cm × 21 cm sheet, then fold it in half to make a small rectangle.
Open it after creasing, and fold the left and right edges to meet the center crease.
Next, fold all four corners into triangles.
The key is to fold them slightly away from the center line.
Aligning with the inner edges of the triangles, fold the left and right sides to make creases, then fold the top and bottom edges you first folded outward by about 1 cm.
Once folded, open it up from there to form a box shape.
Attach a handle and decorations, and it’s complete!
A foldable bamboo shoot you can display as is! How to fold itNEW!
When the weather turns warm around April, bamboo shoots peek out from the soil.
They also start appearing on the dining table, giving children more chances to see them.
You might also picture them as chocolate snacks shaped like bamboo shoots.
Here is an origami project to make a bamboo shoot, familiar even to older kindergarteners.
After folding the paper in half vertically and horizontally to make creases, fold a small section at the bottom back.
Fold the top edge down to meet the lower crease, then fold the left and right sides to create patterns like bamboo shoot husks.
The finished bamboo shoot can be displayed flat as a wall decoration or puffed out at the bottom to stand on its own.
Fold a springtime bamboo shoot and enjoy the season.
Origami bee with cute heart-shaped wings!NEW!
Let’s make a bee by creating and combining the head, body, and wings.
In this idea, the first step for all parts is to fold the origami into a triangle.
Be sure to align the corners carefully as you fold.
From there, transform each piece into its respective part.
For the antennae, open up the folded section from the inside and squash it; a thin tool like a cuticle stick or similar can be helpful.
For the body, fold so that the white side shows on the front like a collar.
Make the wings from white origami paper with a heart shape in mind, and attach them to the back of the body.
After adding the head, draw the face with a pen to finish!
Cute cherry blossom origami on the wall as wellNEW!
Here’s an idea for making a cherry blossom by combining petal parts.
Use one strip of origami paper measuring 15 cm by 1 cm to make a single petal.
First, leaving 3 cm at each end, accordion-fold the paper at 1.5 cm intervals.
Once folded, glue both ends so that the mountain-folded sections face inward.
With one petal complete, make four more and attach them together to form a cherry blossom.
Use pink origami paper and place the colored side on the inside when making it.
A tulip you can stand up and display! A three-dimensional tulipNEW!
Here’s a cute tulip idea you can display on a tabletop rather than on a wall.
For the flower, fold a sheet of origami paper into a triangle twice, then squash the pocket into a square.
Fold the left and right corners inward to form the tulip shape.
Before spreading the flower open from the center, make a small cut at the bottom with scissors so you can insert the stem later.
The leaf and stem are made from a single sheet of origami paper.
First, fold it into a triangle once.
Open it after creasing, then fold the two left edges to the crease line twice, and the right edge once to the crease line.
This way, the stem will be on the left and the leaf on the right.
Finally, fold the stem and leaf together in half, and insert the stem into the flower to finish.
3D Easy Origami ButterflyNEW!
Let’s try making an origami butterfly that signals the arrival of spring.
There’s a squash fold step, but basically you just fold along the creases and edges and you’ll be done! First, crease the paper so that triangles form on both sides by folding it diagonally.
Then fold both corners on one side up to meet the top corner.
Once folded, fold back along the creases you just made.
Flip the paper over, fold the top corner down to meet the bottom edge, and then fold it in half left to right.
Next, fold so that the crease from the earlier fold-back step lines up with the crease from the halving step.
You should now have a butterfly shape, so squash-fold the tips of the wings to round them, and you’re done.
Add antennae to finish it off.
A fun-to-play roly-poly flowerNEW!
A curious piece of origami where a flower dropped upside down springs right back up.
It’s an idea that older kindergarteners bursting with curiosity are sure to love! First, fold the origami paper in half horizontally, then fold it halfway toward the crease, and again halfway… adding lots of crease lines.
After folding the four corners toward the center, keep folding along the creases.
It may seem a bit complicated, but once you understand the steps, it’s actually easy.
Try it while playing the video in slow motion.
It’s a delightful pop-up flower you’ll want to drop again and again.