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[For Kids] Easy Origami Ideas to Enjoy in May

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May, with its pleasant climate, is a fun season full of events like Golden Week, Children’s Day, and Mother’s Day.

In this article, we’ll introduce origami ideas for children to enjoy in May.

We’ve gathered easy-to-fold projects for kids, including traditional favorites like carp streamers and samurai helmets, as well as flowers and creatures you can see in May.

There are plenty of origami designs perfect for Children’s Day decorations, so be sure to make some and display them!

[For Kids] Simple Origami Ideas to Enjoy in May (21–30)

honeybee

[Origami] How to Make a Honeybee

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Would you like to make a buzzing bee flying around spring flowers out of origami? In this idea, the body is made with yellow origami paper and the wings with white paper.

For the body, use the zabuton fold and then fold all four corners inward to finish.

For the wings, first crease an X, fold the top and bottom corners to the center, then fold the paper in half.

Next, fold both ends up diagonally and open the pocketed sections to form the wings.

Glue the body and wings together, then draw the bee’s stripes and face.

It’s a cute idea that makes the bee look like it’s flying!

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Cut and paste-only koinobori

[Easy] 🎏 How to Make Koinobori (Carp Streamers) 🎏 Just cut and paste ✨ [100-yen shop origami] How to make carp-shaped streamers

Cut and paste-only koinobori

If you decorate by stringing together lots of carp streamers like flags, your room will feel full of May.

You’ll make them with origami, but there aren’t any particularly complex steps, so it should be easy to try.

First, make the head and the body from different patterned origami paper, fold them in half, then cut off the tail fin section.

After attaching a white and a black eye, thread a string through around the main fold line and fold it in half.

Then add the fins.

Keep repeating that process until it reaches your desired length, and you’re done.

Using origami with colorful patterns will work better as room decorations.

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In conclusion

We introduced some simple origami ideas for children to enjoy in May.

While many were related to Children’s Day, flowers like roses and irises that bloom in May are also very beautiful and cute.

Be sure to observe the real ones and have fun making them with origami too!