How to Make an Origami Leaf Wreath

Step 1

Take out one of the papers, and place it with the desired display color side up to begin folding, fold it in half horizontally, and unfold it. Then, fold it in half vertically, and unfold it.

Step 2

Flip over from left to right.

Step 3

Fold the bottom right edge to align with the top left edge, and unfold it. Then, fold the bottom left edge to align with the top right edge and unfold it.

Step 4

Mountain fold the left and right creases, and push the left, right, and top points to meet the bottom point. Flatten it to get a small square.

Step 5

Fold the bottom left and right edges of the upper layer to align with the middle vertical crease, then fold down the top triangle, and unfold them.

Step 6

Mountain fold the creases you just made indicated by the red dotted line, and bring up the upper layer to open the pocket. Then use your hands to flatten the pocket, and finally, fold down the top triangle.

Step 7

Take the upper layer on the right side and fold it to the left side, then rotate the paper 180 degrees from left to right.

Step 8

Fold the bottom left and right edges to align with the middle vertical crease, and unfold them.

Step 9

As you did in step 6, mountain fold the creases indicated by the red dotted line, and bring up the upper layer to open the pocket. Then use your hands to flatten the pocket, and finally, fold the upper layer on the right to the left side.

Step 10

Fold up the upper layer, making the two red spots overlap.

Step 11

Fold up the upper flap on the bottom right side along the dotted line, crease it well, and unfold it.

Step 12

Still this flap you folded in the previous step, fold its left edge indicated by the red line to align with the edge indicated by the black line, crease it well, and unfold it.

Step 13

Mountain fold the crease you just made on the upper side of this flap, then open this flap and lift this crease, then fold it up along the dotted line. Finally, squash the flap and flatten the fold.

Step 14

Fold the remaining papers in the same manner.

Step 15

Insert the left corner of the right module into the pocket of the left module to assemble the two modules.

Step 16

Assemble the remaining modules in this way to finish this leaf wreath.

 

What’s Next

Such a lovely leaf origami leaf wreath is done, you may want more different origami challenges, so next you can explore other easy and interesting origami ideas. Enjoy folding!