How to Make an Easy Origami Sunflower

Origami sunflower final step
Difficulty: Easy
Create an elegant origami sunflower with our easy tutorial! Step-by-step instructions for a quick and fun paper craft project. Great for beginners!

This simple origami sunflower is definitely easy, hence the name. It requires two separate sheets of paper and uses simple folds, so the final result is a pretty big origami sunflower. It looks great on poster boards and on the wall.

Step 1
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Begin with a square sheet of origami paper. I am using an 7×7 inches origami paper.

If you only have regular paper, follow these instructions on how to make a square origami paper.

Step 2
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Fold paper in half from left edge to right edge.

Step 3
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Unfold.

Step 4
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Fold in half again, but this time from top edge to the bottom edge.

Step 5
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Unfold.

Step 6
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Fold the top left corner to the center.

Step 7
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Fold the other three corners to the center.

Step 8
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Take a flap and fold outwards like so.

Step 9
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Fold out the rest of the flaps.

Step 10
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Turn the figure over.

Step 11
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Now to make the stem. Get a new piece of paper.

Step 12
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Fold the paper in half from left to right.

Step 13
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Unfold it.

Step 14
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Grab the right corner and fold it to the center, making sure the right edge meet at the center crease.

Step 15
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Now grab the left corner and fold it to the center, making sure the left edge meet at the center crease.

Step 16
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Fold the figure in half by folding right to left.

Step 17
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Take a small portion of the bottom and fold it up, aligning the right edges. It should look like the picture.

Step 18
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Tape the sunflower to the top of the stem. Wasn’t that easy?

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