Hello, I'm Catherine,
and I'm going to show you how to make
on of these origami containers,
or Lazy Susans
my paper is 15cm or 6inches square
and you want to just crease in the middle
don't crease it right across when you're folding in half
It makes the finished container a bit neater, and stronger.
This bit's fairly obvious
you want to try and get the points joined up all together in the centre
These are really relaxing to fold
I think it's because they're quite simple
so that once you know what you're doing
you can switch off a bit
and enjoy the process of the folding
so, just relax and
take your tim with it
Bring the edge to the centre point
again, the same all the way round
Keep the eyes parallel
if you can
you could fold across
as a guideline but as I was saying at the start
it's neater at the end if you don't
here we're just folding in the corners and
making the creases nice and firm
This next bit's fun,
you just have to commit to it really
and make the edges as curved as you can
so we're just opening up the pockets
on the edges now
and flattening out the base of each one
Nearly there!
You can see where we're going now
You can use wait thin paper for this, as long as it's strong
and fairly thick paper
but don't make it too thick, otherwise
at this stage it doesn't really hold together too well
(I've tried!)
we're just neatening it up now
get the edges as rounds you can
going back to the paper thickness,
printer paper's obviously fine
heavy watercolour or wallpaper
is getting towards the thick side
it depends a bit what size you're making the container
So, there we are!
I've been having fun decorating the little flaps
if you want to do that,
put the decoration on the corner and make sure
it's facing up when you start folding
the same as the white side on the video
I thought you'd like to see where we're staying for the week!
Isn't it lovely!
I've been making these out pf recycled paper
and magazine and music paper
if you've got one of these hold punches
you can use the
bits that you've cut out to decorate round the edge
as well or just have the bits punched out on the flaps
anyway, have fun with it :) Bye!
