How to make an origami heart with wings
Origami Heart with Wings: try all 15 steps in the 3D player. Turn and replay every move. Print the complete diagram sheet or save it as PDF.
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.
- You need
- One 6 × 6 in square of red origami paper and two 4.8 × 4.8 in squares of pink paper. A little glue.
- Start
- Use one red square and two smaller pink squares, four fifths as wide. Start all three white side up. Put the heart square on the left and the wing squares beside it, each with a corner pointing up.
- Tips
- Fold both wings the same way so they match.
- Press the long folds hard; a crisp leaf holds its points.
Your model is ready
Glue the wings behind the heart. The heart is ready to give or to stand on a card. The finished heart, with a pointed wing out to each side.
Step-by-step diagrams
Steps 1–6
- 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.
- 6
Fold the wing's upper left edge in
On a pink square, fold the upper left edge to the middle line.
Steps 7–12
- 7
Fold the wing's upper right edge in
Fold the upper right edge to the middle line to match.
- 8
Fold the wing's lower left edge in
Fold the lower left edge to the middle line too.
- 9
Fold the wing's lower right edge in
Fold the lower right edge to the middle line. The wing is a long point at both ends.
- 10
Fold the wing's upper left edge in
On a pink square, fold the upper left edge to the middle line.
- 11
Fold the wing's upper right edge in
Fold the upper right edge to the middle line to match.
- 12
Fold the wing's lower left edge in
Fold the lower left edge to the middle line too.
Steps 13–15
- 13
Fold the wing's lower right edge in
Fold the lower right edge to the middle line. The wing is a long point at both ends.
- 14
Set the left wing
Slide the lower point of the first wing behind the left side of the heart. The wing leans out to the left with its upper point standing out and up.
- 15
Set the right wing
Set the second wing behind the right side of the heart the same way, leaning out to the right.
- ✓
Finish
Glue the wings behind the heart. The heart is ready to give or to stand on a card. The finished heart, with a pointed wing out to each side.
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