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Make your own Origami Bunnies!

Origami is one activity that provides both mental and physical stimulus with exercise. It helps develop hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and mental concentration. This is why it’s such a great activity for children! And with Easter Around the corner, why not use this skill to make origami bunnies!

You’ll need :

  1. Paper- as many 15 x 15 cm pieces of paper as you’d like
  2. A thin thread
  3. Needle
  4. White pom poms or cotton wool for the bunny tail
  5. Hot glue gun (or craft glue will do)

Origami Bunny Method:

Start with your paper white side up or the colour that you don’t want to see.

  1. Fold the top corner down to the bottom and make a nice precise crease.
  2. Fold both the top left and top right corners down to the bottom point and crease well.
  3. Fold the left and right corners up to the top point, again creasing well.
  4. Start with the right flap, open it out to the right, pressing the top of it down to form a slanted triangle. Repeat on the left side.
  5. Rotate the paper to the left a little. Fold the top section backward and behind.
  6. Take the flap which is at the bottom right, and flip it up and behind.
  7. This is a rotation movement, not a reverse fold. Repeat on the flap on the back.
  8. Fold the ears over to the left as indicated, the ears don’t have to all be the same, as it’s an animal, it looks nicer with some asymmetrical folds.
  9. Hold onto the ears at the ‘head’. Open out the left sections, the nose should go downwards, while the left flaps are pushed over the top of the ears on both the front and back of the rabbit (Refer to image in the previous point).
  10. Fold the nose under. This is now complete but we like to fold the ears back out a little. We also like to glue the flaps that stick out from the neck, depending on what type of paper you have used.
  11. Fold the tail bit inwards and glue the pompom/cotton wool on- or alternatively make the two folds indicted below and pleat fold them, the fold on the left is a mountain fold, while the diagonal fold is a valley fold, open out the back of the rabbit to pleat fold them inside.
  12. Thread the twine through the eye of the needle and carefully insert it through the body of an origami bunny. Continue through each of the bunnies with the same piece of twine.

Hang your garland and enjoy your little bunnies!