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How to Fold a Paper Rabbit

by on Apr 7, 2007

A paper has been folded with origami.

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday, or it’s just another Sunday in spring, depending on your point of view. Either way, how about celebrating the day with a few rabbits? They make cute decorations and great place cards. On the origami folding scale, this is an easy one.

Props

One square sheet of paper. A piece of copy paper cut down to 8.5″ by 8.5″ works perfectly. They also look great done in tye dyed paper too!

Scissors

Procedure

Fold and unfold as shown below.

A piece of paper folded into a triangle.

Fold sides to center. (I turned my paper 90 degrees to the right in the second picture.)

A pink paper is in a diamond shape with blue dotted lines.
There is a blue dotted line on a white paper.

Fold tip on the right to the left.

"An Origami in a White Paper"

Fold the previous fold right a little past the edge. (This will be bunny’s tale.)

Folded papers in Origami art.
"Making Paper rockets"

Turn paper over.

"A beautiful Origami in a White Paper"

Fold left point to the right, lining its point up to the straight edge–not the point of the bunny’s tale.

Paper is folded like triangle to prepare origami craft.
"A Origami is done using a paper"

Fold in half to back, as shown.

"Folding a white Paper to do an Origami"
A hand put paper rabbit

Lift the tip up and fold at the bottom. (These will become the bunny’s ears.)

A person folding a white piece of paper into a shape.
"A person is trying Origami with a paper"

Using your scissors, cut down to about 3/4 inch or so from tip (nose) to create two ears.

A person is using a pair of scissors to cut a piece of paper.

Slide your index finger in one of the ears to separate. Fold down to make the ear ‘flop.’ Repeat on the other ear.

A person is folding a white piece of paper.
A person folding paper for origami craft.

And you’re done!

A piece of paper folded up in an origami pattern.

Happy Easter–or happy another-Sunday-in-spring!

Two origami animals are sitting on a table.

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