hello hello welcome back to red ted art
today i'm going to show you how to make
this super cute and easy paper butterfly
um and then there's like slightly
different ways of finishing it off but
that's totally your choice and we'll
discuss those at the end now what you
will need is a square piece of paper
which we're going to cut in half now um
to be honest you can experiment with
different sizes it doesn't really matter
i think this one is 12 centimeters by 12
centimeters i'm just folding it in half
like this
so that i can find that central line
i'm going to open up again and cut along
the middle
now this
therefore is no longer origami because
we've cut our paper origami is always a
square piece of paper with no cutting
but i think it's still a very easy craft
and it's a great introduction to origami
because you use your origami skills for
it so now i'm going to turn this round
fold it in half again
like so
you have a nice neat crease
and then to shape the bits up here you
can either
cut
or you can just fold them over so i
think both work quite well
if you fold it you get a nice little
pattern at the back so i'm going to fold
it
like so
and then i'm going to fold it over here
and over here
so when you shut it looks like this so
you could have cut it if you prefer okay
but i think folding it is quite nice
now i'm just going to fold these again
so now what you need to do is create
this concertina effect so i'm going to
fold my bottom piece up to about half a
centimeters width so
this bit that's left here is half a
centimeter get it as straight straight
as you can and to be honest it doesn't
have to be exactly half a centimeter
it's an approximation okay so when you
fold it over you can see this fold here
now you fold it down again
like so
and then you fold it up again
like
so
right and then you repeat the same on
the other side so basically you're
concerting
your paper around that central
line
see mine isn't super neat but it will
still look cute
there we go now fold it in half
like so
and you've got your top half of your
butterfly now the great thing about this
is you don't have to use um
origami paper you can use any paper
you've got and you can basically recycle
magazines and the like so now you want
to do basically a concertina up that way
in the same distance so
a
half a centimeter
so
there we go
now
you need to fold it in half like so
and then you need to connect your two
pieces now if you wanted to you could
add a little bit of glue here but it's
not strictly speaking necessary
but you know i think it's fine now what
i'm going to use is a little bit of
embroidery thread in a similar color to
my paper
now if you don't have embroidery thread
you can use normal thread you can use
pipe cleaners
you can use ribbons like i've done with
the purple one over here so again it's
one of those things you just have to
have a look
see what you have around the house
and then you tie knot and then you can
wiggle the knot up
i want it up because then i think this
makes quite a good
little bit of string for hanging
trim the little edge
like so
open up
your wings
and you have
your very own butterfly wasn't that
simple
so easy and you've got a little string
to hang it from now of course you can
trim that if you don't like it
or here's an example just so you can see
you can use some ribbons and leave them
as little
antennae for your butterfly or you can
use some pipe cleaner basically as
always have a look what you've got at
home and just make your butterflies
aren't they lovely now don't forget i've
got some other origami butterflies that
involve no cutting so proper origami do
check those out as well i think they're
really lovely but in the meantime i hope
you enjoy these oh so simple little
butterflies see you again soon bye