Form your Origami Butterfly. Place your triangle in front of you with the point of your triangle pointing towards you and the open side of the triangle pointing away from you. Fold down the front layer on either side so that they lie either side of the point as shown below. They will not fit exactly onto the triangle. Step 3: Fold the top and bottom edges to meet at the center. Step 4: Fold in all four corners so their edges meet at the center horizontal crease. Step 5: Fold down the top half. Step 6: Fold the center of the bottom half to the top half. Crease about one inch (2.5 cm) of the center only with your fingernail. STEP 1: Cut fabrics. Cut out two 5-inch by 3.5-inch (13 x 9cm) rectangles for this butterfly. Use two different colors, or patterns that mix and match, for the rectangles, to get an effective contrast when you fold the butterfly. You can make larger or smaller butterflies but just need to remember if you are scaling that the length is 70% of Simple. 8 minutes. 1 square. Learn how to fold an origami butterfly with this easy origami tutorial! This is a very simple traditional design, and it's perfect for beginners. Enjoy the video, and please let me know what you think! Upload photos of your Butterfly to Instagram with the hashtag #ezorigami or submit your photos to my YouTube This simple origami butterfly is one such wonder you should try your hand at. Instructions Step 1. A square paper, colour-side down is where we'll start. Fold along one diagonal of the square. Unfold and fold along the second diagonal. Step 2. Now flip the paper over and fold it in half along that central point formed by the last two folds Difficulty: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ (Simple)Learn how to fold an origami butterfly with this easy origami tutorial! This is a very simple traditional design, and it's perf origami-fun.com Origami Butterfly Instructions 1. Start with your paper white side up. Fold in half, open, then fold in half the other way. 2. Now Fold the Paper in half diagonally, both ways. 3. Fold all four corners into the centre and crease well 4. Turn Over and Fold all four corners into the centre again. 5. Your creases should look Leave a comment & submit your photo on the last page here. Step 1: This is the front of our origami paper, the origami butterfly will end up being this color. Step 2: This is the back of the origami paper, start this side up. Step 3: Fold the bottom right corner diagonally up to the top left corner. Step 4: Unfold the previous step. 1. Fold the paper in half from point to point. Once you have folded it in half, unfold it for the next step. 2. Fold it in half again. Fold the paper in half the opposite way from point to point. After you have made the crease you can unfold it again. 3. Flip the paper over and fold it in half. The tutorial for this easy origami butterfly is on auto play, as origami projects really are BEST VIEWED - they are so much easier to follow in this way! We do however also have this craft as a YouTube video if that is more suitable! I hope you have lots of fun making these very cute and simple Paper Origami Butterflies! See you again soon! Origami Butterfly. Mecho Ocho. Everyone knows that the art of paper-folding has been around for a long time; probably over a 1000 years. But, did you know that two of the oldest examples of recreational origami are butterflies called "Mecho" and "Ocho"? Mecho (female) and Ocho (male) are two paper butterflie