Cool Origami Ideas

Origami is a fun project to impressive someone or even improved your handy craftsmanship in the times of need. It uses a simple paper and required a few minutes to fold your desire shape. Here are a few useful ideas using origami.

1. Heart-shaped flower using money

Why sent traditional rose follower to your love ones during Valentine’s Day when you can make your own bunch of heart-shaped flowers. It requires effort and money of course but it shows that you have dedication. See the instruction at wonderhowto to make your own one.

2. Photo stand

Source: origami-club and origamispirit

3. 3D vase

Source: 3D rainbow vase

4. Document folder

A document folder is a useful item to keep your photo, documents and notes in an organized manner. You can make this with colorful design paper. Check the tutorial from paperkawaii for detail instructions.

Source: paperkawaii

5. Gift box

Making your own gift box gives you the flexible in size, color and pattern of the box. Make sure to select item that is not too heavy to put in the box. Go to this tutorial from instructables to learn now to make your own one.

Source: instructables

6. Gift bows

It is rather simple just to make a gift box. Why not make your own gift bow? It will make your gift more interesting. Instead of using color paper, you can used old magazine pages as your gift bow materials. Follow the instructions show in howaboutorange to learn more.

Source: howaboutorange

7. Corner bookmarks

Love reading? A corner bookmarks is one of the accessories you need to mark your last progress in reading. You can make your cute monster corner bookmarks by follow the step by step from easypeasyandfun.

  

Source: easypeasyandfun and pinterest

8. Lamp shade

Lamp shade is a nice decoration in home. It doesn’t required expensive materials. You mainly used paper, glue and light bulb. See the instructions from brit and designandpaper to learn how to make one.

Source: brit and designandpaper

9. Wallet

Simple and yet easy to make origami wallet, can help you to save some money on buying expensive leather wallet. See the instruction from walletdiy, makezine and paperwallet.

Source: walletdiy, makezine and paperwallet

10. Temporary plant pot

If you in need of a nursery flower or vegetable pot, you could make a temporary plant pot using used newspaper. It is simple and low cost idea to take care of your young plant before moving it to a bigger pot. Follow these instructions from thethingswellmake to make your own.

Source: thethingswellmake

Origami is fun to do and can be quite useful for daily life. Hopefully, these ideas are suite your needs and help you to make more use of your origami projects than as decorations.