Origami perfect for summer. Fun and easy for kids to make!
Summer is full of fun events like swimming at the beach or pool and fireworks festivals! How about expressing that summer with origami? Here, we’ll introduce origami that’s perfect for the season.
There are lots of designs, like cool ice cream, lanterns from summer festivals, and seasonal flowers and insects.
All of them are easy to make and can be completed in a short time, so they’re great even after water play.
Fold a variety, decorate your room, or enjoy a pretend festival with friends.
Have a fun summer with origami!
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Origami perfect for summer. Fun and easy for kids to make! (141–150)
whale
How about using a whale as a motif, since its large appearance makes it so popular? For this one, you create the form with blue origami paper and add eyes to finish it as a whale.
This origami actually pairs well with drawings.
For example, if you stick it onto a picture of the ocean, it adds a sense of realism, and drawing a spout on the top of its body is a good way to express movement.
You can also make whales in different colors or smaller whales to enjoy a parent-and-child look.
Try it while letting your imagination expand.
soft serve ice cream
Soft-serve ice cream is hugely popular with children.
Using it as a motif might boost their enthusiasm for origami.
To make it, first prepare dark yellow or ocher origami paper.
Fold it into a diamond shape, use the lower part as the cone, and flip the upper part to represent the ice cream.
It’s a clever idea to make use of the blank white portion.
It can also spark ideas for other ways to use the blank area.
Once the soft serve is finished, decorating it with beads to look like chocolate is also fun.
eggplant
This is an origami eggplant that brings out the feeling of the season.
Here, we’ll make the body with purple paper and the calyx with black paper, then assemble them together.
Since eggplants are harvested from early summer, they convey a summery vibe.
If you also fold a paper basket and arrange several eggplants in it, it can serve as stylish decor.
In that case, making eggplants in both deep and light purple, or using both black and green calyxes, will give a more realistic look.
By the way, summer eggplants are often a deep purple.
Origami perfect for summer. Fun and easy for kids to make! (151–160)
Sunflower
A slightly unusual structure is the sunflower origami.
First, use yellow origami paper to make the petals.
Next, take ochre-colored origami paper to make a square, draw a mesh pattern inside it to represent the seeds, and then fit it into the center of the petals you made earlier.
It’s fun that two separate parts come together.
It looks beautiful displayed on a wall as is, and you can also glue it onto drawing paper and add illustrations to match.
Making many of them to create a sunflower field is a great idea, too.
paper lantern
Many children are probably looking forward to the summer festival.
As an idea to boost the festive mood, I’d like to introduce lantern origami.
In this project, you make the lantern part by shaping your favorite color of origami paper into a circle and then recreate the look by combining it with a frame made from black origami paper.
It looks lovely as is, but you can also write characters on the lantern and use it as a wall decoration for events.
You can draw illustrations to make it cute, or draw a face and turn it into a lantern ghost, too.
wind chime
Wind chimes that bring a sense of coolness in summer.
It’s also fun to recreate them with origami.
First, use origami with a pattern you like to make the glass part.
Then thread a string through it and attach a paper strip at the bottom to finish.
Since it has a string, you can hang it anywhere, and when the wind blows, the strip flutters and feels refreshing.
Using Japanese-patterned origami or drawing on the strip will make it look even more like a real wind chime.
It’s also recommended to cut the origami into smaller pieces to make tiny wind chimes—they turn out adorably.
sunglasses
When summer comes, you see more people wearing sunglasses, don’t you? Kids might even see that and want to try them too.
So here’s an introduction to an origami sunglasses craft you can wear and enjoy.
First, fold the paper into a triangle, then fold the base into a thin strip to create the parts that hook over the ears.
For the lens section, fold the tips to represent two separate lenses.
Unlike real sunglasses, there’s no worry about them breaking, and the charm is that you can finish them in any color you like.
In conclusion
We introduced origami motifs with a summer theme.
There were so many that made you feel the season just by looking at them.
It could be exciting to ask the children, “What comes to mind when you think of summer?” and decide together what to make.
It’s also fun to create things in origami that represent the summer vegetables you’re growing in class or the insects you found outside.
When you connect what the children have actually seen, touched, and experienced to their creations, their interest and engagement will deepen even more.
Try enjoying origami in a variety of ways!