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Origami Video Tutorial – Bookmarks – Corazón y Corbatín

An origami model titled "Bookmarks - Corazón y Corbatín" designed by Leyla Torres and Julio Salcedo

A model design of Leyla Torres & Julio Salcedo Do you like to fold origami animals? In this video tutorial, you will learn how to fold a pair of origami bookmarks named Corazón and Corbatín (Heart and Bowtie). I am very excited to share these origami bookmarks because they allow for the experience of (easily) applying … Read more

Make This Delightful Paper Bat for Halloween

This is an origami bat with  great battitude and batsonality! It flutters into our spooky space to join a growing  group of  origami models for Halloween  previously featured in Origami Spirit. Jennifer Linderman –artist, teacher and a wonderfully creative friend of mine, is the designer of this bat. Folding it makes me wish to be a … Read more

Don’t Wait for Halloween to Fold This Bat-Winged Heart

Love Halloween? Whatever your feelings about celebrating this holiday, you will love folding this origami heart with bat wings.Riki Saito (Japan) was inspired by Ildikó’s heart-dish, published recently in Origami Spirit. With the addition of bat wings he takes Ildiko’s origami heart to a new level.Folded from a triangular piece of paper cut from a … Read more

Fold and Flap an Origami Bat

flapping origami bat

Because of the economy in the number of folds and the quality of the movement expressed in the flapping wings, this clever origami butterfly, a creation of designer Deg Farrelly, is one of my favorite action models. Over the years I have folded it many times, often in black paper at Halloween, telling those I … Read more

30 Prompts For April 2025 – Garden

Please join us any time during August 2024 as we explore this month’s folding themes.

This OrigamiSpirit challenge is open to anyone who wants to participate. Here is how to play along… Read more inside!

28 Prompts For February 2025 – LOVE

Please join us any time during August 2024 as we explore this month’s folding themes.

This OrigamiSpirit challenge is open to anyone who wants to participate. Here is how to play along… Read more inside!