How to make a paper goat cutout
Paper Goat Cutout: try all 3 steps in the 3D player. Turn and replay every move. Print the complete diagram sheet or save it as PDF.
An Origami Tutor goat for the Year of the Goat: fold a square in half, cut one outline through both layers, then open a goat's head with two curved horns, level ears and a pointed beard.
- You need
- Thin paper, a pencil, a ruler and scissors.
- Start
- Begin with a 12 cm square of paper, colored side up. Keep an edge at the top.
Your model is ready
Smooth the centre fold flat. Draw two eyes, a nose and a mouth with a dark pen, and glue the goat on a red card for Lunar New Year. The finished goat's head, with a curved horn above each ear and a beard below.
Step-by-step diagrams
- 1
Fold the square in half
Bring the left edge to the right edge. Match the corners and press the vertical fold. Keep the folded edge on the left.
- 2
Cut the goat outline
Begin on the folded edge at the top of the head. Cut up the inside of the horn to its tip, curve round it and come back down the outside to the head. Cut out along the top of the ear, round its end and back along the underside. Cut down the cheek to the chin and down the beard to the folded edge. Keep the goat beside the fold.
- 3
Open the goat
Open the centre fold carefully. The two halves meet down the middle of the face.
- ✓
Finish
Smooth the centre fold flat. Draw two eyes, a nose and a mouth with a dark pen, and glue the goat on a red card for Lunar New Year. The finished goat's head, with a curved horn above each ear and a beard below.
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