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Origami Star Boxes with Printable Origami Paper

Posted on September 24, 2013 24 Comments

How to make origami star boxes and free printable paper so you can make some!

“I want to make that” she said, holding up a picture torn from an ancient magazine.

It was an origami box, and I figured it was a pretty cool school holiday project so we set about looking for simple instructions online, and finding some paper.

Of course we didn’t have any lovely origami paper, we didn’t even have any plain coloured paper, we just had boring, white printer paper. So while the girls attempted to work through the various instructions we’d found, I decided to make our own origami paper.

Now that we had some cool patterned paper to play with we perfected our box making method quite quickly and made a heap of them.

Here is how we made our origami star boxes:

How to make origami star boxes and free printable paper so you can make some!

How to make origami star boxes and free printable paper so you can make some!

The only really tricky part is the first bit, the rest is simple enough for even little hands to do with help… but if my instructions make no sense, then try these ones which are animated!

How to make origami star boxes and free printable paper so you can make some!

If you’d like to make your own origami star boxes and need some pretty paper, you can download our printable origami paper here. The pdf comes with four different coloured and patterned squares, just print them on to plain boring printer paper, cut them out as accurately as you can and you are ready to fold!

How to make origami star boxes and free printable paper so you can make some!

Origami star boxes are good for storing all sorts of little things… even dinosaurs!

How to make origami star boxes and free printable paper so you can make some!

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  1. Emsticker says

    Thank you, do you have any tutorial video to support it ?

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    • katepickle says

      sorry no video for this one, but I’m sure you’d find several on youtube as it’s a pretty common origami pattern.

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