Learn to make Origami Heart Clover for decoration this Valentine

Looking for last minute ideas for Handmade gifts or decorations for this Valentine's?

You have landed on the right page...Through this post today, you will learn to fold an origami Heart Clover that you can use to make decorations for cards, gift toppers and more...

Category: Modular Origami

Level of difficulty: On a scale of 5,  I would give it a 3.

Heart Clover Origami

Below is a picture tutorial, followed by a written step by step explanation, that will guide you to make this model.

Material used:

8.75cm x 8.75cm square sheets cut out from the printer paper. Requires 4 such square units. You can use any square sized sheets depending upon the requirement.

Procedure:

Steps to follow as per the picture above for making the Clover unit. 

If you are using a two-sided different colored paper, start with white side on the top and proceed with the instructions in the same way.

Heart Clover Unit 

Instructions to make the Heart Clover Unit:

1. Fold in half along the centers to make the horizontal and vertical creases and then open it. Note the hidden lines for the fold in the next step.
2. Fold in as shown.
3. Turn over and note the hidden lines for the next fold.
4. Fold along the hidden lines to meet at the centre.
5. Turn over and note the hidden lines to make the next fold.
6. Fold along the hidden lines.
7. Now focus on the upper part of the unit. Squash open the folds and fold as shown.
8. Note the hidden lines for the next fold.
9. Fold in both the sides along the hidden lines to meet at the centre.
10. Fold in the top triangles along the indicated hidden lines.
11. Turn over and one heart unit is ready.

Heart Clover Model Assembly

Instructions to assemble the model:

1. Follow the instructions above and make a total of 4 units.
2. Insert units one by one, below each other as shown in the picture above and glue them. The heart clover model is ready.

You can use this origami model to make greeting cards or decorate the gifts by using them as gift toppers and gift them to your dear and near ones this Valentine's season. Your friends will love receiving gifts made by hand and if it is such a pretty thing, your efforts will surely be appreciated.

Hope this tutorial inspires you to make many such beautiful origami models.

Thank you for stopping by.

Have a nice day ahead and... yes...wishing you all a very Happy Valentine's Day. 

Keep folding and spreading peace and love.

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Crafting this Valentine Season - Heart Hours at Art Hours!

Heart Hours @ Art Hours

Art Hours celebrated this Valentine Season doing various art and crafts activities with the students.

Our activities include Drawing, Painting, Origami, Clay Modeling, Calligraphy and more...This post is dedicated to all the art and craft work related with this Valentine Season.

Before I begin to elaborate on the activities we did, let Art Hours wish you all readers a very Happy Valentine's Day (belated wishes). Do you know why Valentine's Day is celebrated? Well, the reason or the roots behind the Valentine Day is not very clear...there are many stories that revolve around the day. Some say it was celebrated to honor a St. Valentine who was martyred on 14th Feb, while some say it was declared by Chaucer to celebrate it as a mating season of the birds and since then it has been celebrated as a day associated with romance. Whatever the reason maybe, today it has certainly become a commercial success and is celebrated all around the world with the exchange of gifts, cards, flowers and more...

Valentine's Day Wishes

Coming back to Art Hours Art and Craft activities this Valentine Season, let us first present to you all the origami work we explored.

It was fun as we discovered different variations of the origami heart models designed by origami artists around the world. Some required square sheets, while some required rectangular sheets. Also, some models were made using just a single sheet while some required the use of multiple sheets. All were fun to make, and here's what we tried.

All the origami models that you see below are unique and each of them was made from a single sheet. It didn't involve any cutting of paper or glue. Model-1 is a simple heart insert that can be used to decorate a gift box. Model-2 is Clover Heart frame, what you see is the clovers' side, while the back side is a photo frame that can be made to stand by lifting one of the heart flaps as you see in the picture. Model-3 which is two hearts of different colors was made from a single sheet. Designed by Francis Ow, the dual colored heart was a surprise indeed. Model-5 and 7 are different variations of the dual colored heart. Model-6 is a heart insert that can be used as gift topper or as a bookmark too.

1 - An Origami Square Box with a Heart insert
2 - Clover Heart frame
3 - Two Hearts
4 - Heart Stand
5 - Dual colored Heart
6 - Heart Insert
7 - Dual colored Heart - variation

Below, are some Traditional Origami Heart models and its different variations. Very often, I post tutorials on this blog and recently I posted one on the winged heart as you see in the picture below. It was a recent post and it didn't take long to make. Here's a link on how to make the winged heart and how to hide secret messages in its compartments. Just click here to view the tutorial. 

1 - Heart with a crane
2 - Winged Heart
3 - Standing Heart 01
4 - Standing Heart 02
5 - Heart insert
5a - Heart insert
6 - Dual colored Heart - Variation 1
7 - Dual colored Heart - Variation 2
8 - Easy Heart model

The next on our list below are the Origami Roses; we made some on the request of a client and some just for fun. All of them were single sheet models, except for model-4, which is a magic rose box and is modular origami involving the use of 6 units. Model-1 shows some red and pink quilled roses complete with a calyx, leaf, and stem. Model-2 is a jeweled origami rose, which didn't come out the way it should, but it was a challenge folding it.

1 - Quilled origami roses
2- Jeweled origami rose
3 - Twisted roses
4 - Magic rose box

1 - Quilled origami rose
2 - Origami rose - Kawasaki rose variation

From our Students' portfolio, we have some Calligraphy and Origami work below. Made by kids in the age group of 8-9 year old, the students are learning both calligraphy and origami, and it was an exercise they loved doing since it combined both the above-mentioned skills. So based on the valentine theme for friends, Art Hours students tried their hand at Calligraphy using simple Mid Schooler style fonts to send out a beautiful message this Valentine Season; "True Friends are like a candle burning in the dark." and they learned to make an origami easy heart and a candle too.

Students' work - From the calligraphy & origami section 

Students' work - From the calligraphy & origami section 

Students' work - From the calligraphy & origami section 

From the Students' Drawing section for kids in the age group of 6-8, the exercise was to explore with the heart shape. We got some interesting drawings by the kids from this age group.

Drawing with Hearts -
A mouse, a flower, a princess, a house 

Drawing with Hearts -
A caterpillar, a cat face, a fish

Drawing with Hearts -
A Flamingo pair, Butterfly, Umbrella

From our Clay modeling section we did make a lot of clay hearts, clay Diya and more...Here is a link to the tutorial for making clay heart pendant or clay trinkets using air dry clay. I had posted a tutorial earlier this month, you can check it out here.

Clay Heart Trinkets

Hope you enjoyed the glimpse at the 'Heart Hours' at Art Hours and I hope the links to the tutorials attached are helpful.

Do come and join us...we do a lot of art and craft activities every week at - The Gardens, Dubai. To know more about our activities you can click on this link here.

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