Step one:

Fold in half along dotted line shown to make it a triangle.

Origami Lotus Flower Directions...

for your origami butterfly to land on

provided by Briarcliff Manor Public Library

It will look like this:

Now open it up again and it will look like this:

Step two:

Position paper as shown below, and then fold in half again along the

dotted line shown:

It will look like this:

Now open it up again and it will look like this:

Step three:

Position paper as shown below, and then fold in half again along the

dotted line shown:

It will look like this:

Now open it up again and fold in half again diagonally the other way.

Open it again. It will look like this:

Step four:

Step five:

Position paper as shown below and fold all of the corners in to the

center along the dotted lines shown:

It will look like this:

Step six:

Keep the same side facing up from when you completed your last step.

Position paper as shown below and again fold all of the corners in to the

center along the dotted lines shown:

It will look like this:

Now flip it over. It will look like this:

Step seven:

Position paper as shown below and again fold all of the corners in to the

center along the dotted lines shown:

It will look like this:

Now open those last folds you did and flip the whole thing over.

It will look like this:

Step eight:

Position paper as shown below. Do you see all the four points that are

meeting at the middle? You will fold each of these back along the

dotted lines shown so that the points stick out beyond the edge a bit.

When you have done the first of these folds it will look like this:

When you complete all four folds it will look like this:

Tip: Do these folds in a clockwise or counterclockwise

direction so that you make sure your are folding the

same amount back with each fold.

Step nine:

Flip it over so it looks like this:

Now you fold the the corners (noted with red dots above) back in

towards the center along the dotted lines shown above (which is along

fold lines that are already there). This will end up tugging the sticking out

triangles upward.

You will have to keep holding the folds down so they don’t keep

unfolding themselves. While you keep them all down with one finger in

the center, use the other finger to really push down in the corners so they

really nestle inside their walled nooks.

It will look like this, but it

might not like this without

your finger on it. It might

still want to pop up a little

at this point.

You are going to not keep it on this side — you are going to flip it back

over. But you will be pulling each of those points that meet at the center

shown above and folding them up so that they stick out and up.

Flip it back over now and pull on each point on the back one at a time so

that it folds up and you can see it sticking up. As you are pulling those

up, you are pushing the center of the flower down a bit, too.

Once they are all up, your flower is done! But if it still keeps wanting to

unfold/pop up pick the whole thing up in your hands and push the

center point down while pulling the sides up a bit until it stays.

Step ten:

On the back you will see this: