14th November 2013
Origami how-to: Sombrero!
Step-by-step picture guide to making an origami sombrero by Arts Editor Abbie Roberts
Categories: Arts
- 1.Begin with square paper folded diagonally, fold in half and unfold to make crease.2.Fold bottom corners in to meet middle line to make a house shape.3.Fold these corners in again.4.Fold top point down
5.Over along the middle
6.This should result in the paper being flat. Pres flat.
7.Turn paper over and repeat
8.This should result in the paper being flat. Press flat.
9.Turn paper round, open the paper along bottom edge
10.And collapse it
11.Into this shape. Then fold corners up. Repeat behind.
12.On either side of model pinch outer layers of paper
13.And pull them apart
14.Making a flat sombrero
15.To complete sombrero open out along the bottom edge.
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