How to make a maple leaf paper cutout
Maple Leaf Paper 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 fall leaf: fold a square in half, cut one toothed outline through both layers, then open a maple leaf with five pointed lobes and a stem.
- You need
- Thin paper, a pencil, a ruler and scissors.
- Start
- Begin with a 12 cm square of red, orange or yellow paper, colored side up. Keep an edge at the top.
Your model is ready
Leave the centre crease a little bent, like a real leaf's vein. Cut several in red, orange and yellow, and tape them in a window or string them into a fall garland. The finished maple leaf, with its stem at the bottom.
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 leaf outline
Begin on the folded edge at the tip of the leaf. Cut down the middle lobe's teeth and in to the first notch, out round the big side lobe, in to the second notch and round the small lower lobe. Then cut in toward the fold, down one side of the stem, and across its end to the fold. Keep the leaf beside the fold.
- 3
Open the leaf
Open the centre fold carefully. The crease runs down the middle of the leaf like its vein.
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Finish
Leave the centre crease a little bent, like a real leaf's vein. Cut several in red, orange and yellow, and tape them in a window or string them into a fall garland. The finished maple leaf, with its stem at the bottom.
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