How to make an easy origami heart for kids
Easy Origami Heart for Kids: try all 5 steps in the 3D player. Turn and replay every move. Print the complete diagram sheet or save it as PDF.
An Origami Tutor heart in three main folds for young children: fold the square in half, then fold each half up across the middle so its corner becomes a lobe. Two small folds round the lobes. The whole heart shows the colored side.
- You need
- One square of origami paper, colored on one side. No scissors or glue.
- Start
- Start white side up, with the edges straight up and across. Red paper that is white on the back makes a red heart.
- Tips
- Line both slanted folds up with the middle of the bottom edge so the point stays sharp.
- Small hands find a bigger square easier, such as 8 × 8 in.
Your model is ready
Press the heart flat. It is ready to glue on a card or give away. The finished heart, with its two lobes at the top.
Step-by-step diagrams
- 1
Fold in half
Fold the top edge down to the bottom edge. You have a long rectangle.
- 2
Fold up the left half
Fold the left half up along a slanted line from the middle of the bottom edge to a spot a fifth of the way in from the left along the top edge. Its top corner sticks up as a lobe.
- 3
Fold up the right half
Fold the right half up the same way, over the left half. The two corners stand side by side as the heart's lobes.
- 4
Round the left lobe
Fold the square tip of the left lobe behind.
- 5
Round the right lobe
Fold the tip of the right lobe behind the same way.
- ✓
Finish
Press the heart flat. It is ready to glue on a card or give away. The finished heart, with its two lobes at the top.
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Heart ↗
This heart stays flat, so it fits inside a greeting card or on the front of a folded note. The colored side makes the face; small folds hidden behind the left edge, right edge and two top tips soften the outline.
Pocket heart ↗
An Origami Tutor two-color heart with a pocket across its front: slip a folded note or a gift card in behind the colored pocket. Five folds and no glue.
Heart with wings ↗
An Origami Tutor winged heart in three pieces: a red heart folded from a square in five easy folds, and two pointed wings folded from smaller squares. A dab of glue sets the wings behind the heart.
Heart butterfly ↗
An Origami Tutor butterfly whose wings are four hearts: two large hearts above and two small ones below, set point to point round the middle, with a thin dark body folded from a fifth square down the center.