Easy flower craft ideas you can make with a single sheet of origami paper
Origami flowers in vibrant colors are often made as interior decorations for a room or as gifts for someone special.
Some people may feel they’re difficult because you add fine creases to express the petals or cut with scissors.
So in this article, we’ve put together an easy-to-make collection of flowers and folding methods using a single sheet of origami paper.
We’ll focus on beautifully colored flowers, including ones that are well known in Japan.
We hope you’ll enjoy the seasonal feeling as you have fun with origami.
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Flower craft ideas that are easy to make with a single sheet of origami (21–30)
Gerbera
An origami project you can enjoy in any season.
This time, we’ll show you how to fold a simple and beautiful gerbera.
The key is to make firm crease lines at the beginning and proceed step by step.
There’s a stage where you unfold the paper once and then refold it, so it may be a bit tricky until you get the hang of it.
If you work carefully to the end, you’ll finish with a unique, three-dimensional gerbera.
Its delicate design and colors will brighten up your room, making it perfect as a seasonal decoration or a lovely accent to a gift!
Yuri
Lilies have beautiful, striking shapes and colors you can enjoy.
This is an origami lily that’s easy to make yet captures a three-dimensional form.
While it doesn’t require any particularly difficult techniques, the step where you open up folded sections to shape the flower might be a bit challenging for beginners.
For the finishing touch, curling the petals outward with a pen or similar tool adds a nice touch.
Try making them in various colors like white, pink, or orange.
Using gradient origami paper can give it a different, unique look as well.
five-petaled flower
Five-petaled flowers are so cute! Here’s a spring-like flower idea.
First, cut your origami paper into a pentagon.
Use the folding method shown in the video to make the pentagon.
Once you have a pentagon, accordion-fold along the creases—mountain fold, valley fold—then collapse it into a bud shape.
Fold up the bottom corner of the bud, then open the paper.
You should now see pentagonal crease lines inside.
Mountain-fold the five edges, and on the inner creases alternate mountain and valley folds to make an inside reverse fold.
Place the paper with the inside-reversed section facing down, then fold the left and right edges inward about 5 mm.
Open the top section to form the petals—and you’re done! Be careful and gentle when opening the petals.
hydrangea
Let’s make a hydrangea out of origami—a flower known for blooming during the rainy season around June.
It’s a great idea for classroom wall displays, too.
This version uses smaller origami paper.
First, fold the paper in half into a triangle twice, and into a square twice to make crease lines, then unfold.
Using those creases, collapse the paper so that two squares overlap.
Fold up the corner that will be the center of the origami, then open it again.
Now, make all the creases you just created into mountain folds and perform a sink fold so that the corner goes inside.
Slightly fold the left and right edges inward on both the front and back, then round the edges with scissors.
Gently open the origami into the shape of a hydrangea.
The key is to open it so that the parts you folded inward overlap!
Iris
Irises that bloom with petals drooping are known as flowers you can enjoy during the rainy season.
Let’s make such an iris with origami.
First, fold the origami paper into a triangle.
Fold the left and right corners up to meet the top corner, then fold the central edges to align with the outer edges.
Open up the left and right triangular sections and squash them flat.
Turn the paper over and fold one layer of the top corner down as far as it will go.
Fold the top corner up to about the center of the paper, then unfold, and cut off the tip with scissors.
Fold down the cut section outward to open it up, and you’re done! If you flip it upside down, you’ll have a lovely iris.
sunflower
When you think of summer flowers, sunflowers come to mind! Here’s a recommended way to fold a sunflower for summer decorations.
First, crease once into a square and once into a triangle, then fold using the “zabuton” (cushion) base.
Open it up and fold each of the four corners up to the front crease twice.
Flip it over, fold the corners to the center, flip it back, and fold using the “boat” base.
Open the corners and squash-fold them.
Fold the four square sections using the crane-style folds.
Fold up the four corners in the center, then tuck the outer corners inward to finish! For paper, I recommend double-sided origami in yellow and brown, or use yellow origami and create a cute brown center with washi paper or other materials.
ground cherry (Japanese lantern plant)
You often see Chinese lantern plants displayed during Obon, don’t you? Here’s an idea for making incredibly realistic ones! It might seem difficult to recreate a Chinese lantern plant with origami, but the steps are almost the same as for the “balloon.” So first, make an origami balloon.
Once you’ve made the balloon, just fold the left and right edges on either the top or the bottom toward the center line, and you’re done! If you try to blow it up as is, it may not inflate all the way to the end.
Gently pull the paper outward to open it up a bit first, then blow air into it.