Origami Winged Heart with a Secret Message

Valentine's day is not just to exhibit love to your friends only...make it a day to show and acknowledge love to your dear and near ones as well; it could be your mother, father, your husband or wife or to your kids as well. 

I have planned this Valentine day to surprise my daughter with a winged heart and a secret message inside. And here's how I plan to do it. I am going to decorate her morning cup of milk with a just a small heart insert and a small winged heart with a secret message inside. Hope she likes it...keeping my fingers crossed...

Origami Winged Heart with a morning cup of milk

Here's the tutorial below on how to make an origami winged heart and how to use it to hide a secret message inside it.

TUTORIAL FOR AN ORIGAMI WINGED HEART

MATERIALS REQUIRED

Origami paper (here size used is 7.5cm x 7.5 cm),

Any small paper to write the secret message

PROCEDURE

Step 01: 

Start with a dual sided colored paper with white side on the top. Make creases in the center of the paper both in the horizontal and vertical direction. 

Step 01

Step 02: 
Fold the top and bottom sides to meet at center.

Step 02

Step 03: 
Turn it over.

Step 03

Step 04: 
Note the crease made for the next fold

Step 04

 Fold the bottom to meet at the center

Step 04 (contd.)

Step 05:
Turn over to fold down the top edge in the next step.

Step 05

Step 06:

Fold down about 1/3rd the top edge as shown in the picture below and squash the centers to get the tiny triangles at the top.

Step 06

Step 07:
Fold down the extreme left and right sides as shown below.

Step 07

Step 08: 
Now focus back to the top. Fold in the small triangles you see on both the sides to shape the heart.

Step 08

Step 09:
Turn over and the winged heart is ready.

Step 09

Now lets deal with the secret message and the compartments to hide the messages in. Cut out two hearts as shown below and write down the intended message. The heart cutouts should be small enough to fit in the small compartments of the origami winged heart.

Heart cutouts with secret messages

There is one compartment on the front side and another compartment on the back side of the winged heart. As shown in the picture below, you can slide in the heart with a message on the front side of the origami winged heart.

Front compartment to hide a secret message 

Turn over the winged heart. Lift up the top flap and there is another compartment on the back side too to slide in another secret message.

Lift the top flap to reveal another compartment to hide a message

I enjoyed this entire exercise of making this origami winged heart, writing down the messages and then hiding them in the secret compartments. It didn't take more than 15 minutes to do the entire exercise.

Kids usually love surprises, especially when they find some secret compartments or pockets. 

Try it out and surprise your kid and shower him/her with love always and not just on this day. Kids need a lot more of love, affection, and affirmation from us adults than what we show or acknowledge in our daily lives. So don't miss any opportunity to shower and spread love this season.

Sources referred:

I got this beautiful tutorial from jenuinemom.com, a lovely website that provides lots of DIYs and craft tutorials.

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