Origami Carnation Flowers Tutorial

Last month, we celebrated the World Origami Day on the 11th of Nov 2016, by conducting an Origami Workshop for the parent and child. You can view the highlights of the workshop here. One of the things the participants enjoyed making was an origami paper basket filled with carnation flowers. It is not an easy model to start with for the beginners, but all the kids with their parents took up the challenge, and each one of them had completed and made a beautiful origami paper basket filled with carnation flowers.

Origami Basket with Carnation Flowers

Here's a picture that shows the steps for making the Origami flowers using a square sheet of paper. For this tutorial, the size of paper used is 6cmx6cm, but for the workshop, we used origami papers of size 7.5x7.5cm, while for the basket the paper size is 210cm square cut out from an A4 sheet.

Materials required:

• Square paper, again here the size of paper used for the flower is 6cm x 6cm.
• A pair of scissors
• Pencil

Tutorial for Origami Carnation Flower

Procedure:

• Step 01: Start by making creases along both the diagonals of the square paper.  Note: Here, we have used single colored paper, meaning they are of the same color on both the sides and you don't have to worry which side should be on top.
• Step 02: Turn the paper over and make the creases along the horizontal and verticals of the square as shown in the picture above. You are preparing to make the square base.
• Step 03: Follow the creases and fold to make the square base.
• Step 04: Now, keeping the open side upwards, fold in both the bottom sides as shown in the picture to meet at center.
• Step 05: Turn the paper over and repeat step 04 for this side also.
• Step 06: Now cut the top part using a pair of scissors following an arch shape. You can roughly draw with a pencil for guidelines before making the cuts.
• Step 07: Fold in the bottom tip to touch the top at center, crease well and then fold back.
• Step 08: Now open the flower and flatten from the top following the crease made in last step and the flower is ready.

The origami flower made using the above steps is finally about 3.5cm in diameter. I attached a paper stem with a leaf at the base of every flower. 

Carnations with stem

I shall soon post the tutorial for making the origami basket that we made to hold the flowers. Till then do give this beautiful carnation flowers a try. 

Have a good day!

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