Illustration of how to fold Japanese octagonal gift box Origami octagonal gift box with lid

The origami method of the Japanese octagonal gift box is very beautiful! First fold out 8 components, and then insert them together to form the lid. There is also an octagonal star flower in the middle of the lid, which can be used as a gift box. Wouldn’t it be too pretty? O(∩_∩)O ha!

Start folding the components, first take a square piece of colored paper.

Fold it diagonally and open it to get the crease as shown in the picture above.

All three corners are folded like the middle point.

Open one of the corners.

Fold the unfolded corner upwards, aligning the top of the corner with the crease.

Then fold it in half.

How it looks when folded in half.

Place it like this, please ignore the crease.

Fold up along the edge.

Open as shown.

The reverse side.

Turn back to the front.

Fold up.

Repeat the steps to fold out 8 components with different colors.

Plug the eight components together.

Insert like this.

What it looks like after everything is inserted. Because you still need a box body, repeat the above steps~