This is a fun, relatively simple paper fan craft, similar to those little paper umbrellas you see in cocktails that open and close! You can use different papers to make it and decorate it to your liking. This is a medium-difficulty manual tutorial that takes about 20 minutes to complete!~
Materials and tools: poster (or paper), scissors, sticks, glue, tape, folders and pom-poms.
Cut a large square from the poster, the dimensions will determine the size of the umbrella. First fold the edge in half and open it.
Fold it diagonally again and open it. There should be a rice crease at this time.
Slightly gathered, the top of the umbrella should be folded into a pyramid shape on all four sides, with an inward crease in the middle.
These four inward creases must be folded outward to form another triangle between the main sections.
This is done by pulling out the folds while bringing their sides together.
Cut the edge of the paper umbrella.
For the small axis (i.e. the smaller triangle folded in step 3) cut outsemicircles, while larger circles are cut out of wider curves.
Put the stick through the middle of the top of the paper umbrella and out the top. Secure the upper and lower sides of the umbrella with a thin roll of tape around the stick.
Cut out a long, thin piece of tape that will serve as a moving slider for opening and closing the paper umbrella.
Make it into a small hollow cylinder with no sticky inner wall.
Cut out eight long, thin strips of kraft paper.
These will become the skeleton of the paper umbrella.
Adhere each strip to the inward fold at the bottom of the umbrella top.
Insert the four strips into the sliding parts.
Repeat with the remaining four strips diagonally. If the paper umbrella does not fold or open correctly, adjust it by folding and pulling the strips to the appropriate length.
A movable paper umbrella origami is completed, simple and cute~
