Illustrated tutorial on how to fold origami yuanxiao, including a spoon to hold the yuanxiao

The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. Traditional customs include going out to admire the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, guessing lantern riddles, eating Lantern Festivals together, pulling rabbit lanterns, etc. Now I will share with you a tutorial on how to make origami yuanxiao, including the spoon for holding the yuanxiao!

Prepare a piece of 15x15cm two-color paper and line it in 16 equal parts.

Connect again

Fold into sections as shown in the figure, leaving four spaces in between.

Fold a square in the middle.

Gather by crease.

The bottom is folded.

Expand that triangle into a square.

You can choose which layer of paper to insert inside.

Shape the white part of the top into a smooth shape, this is the dumpling!

Leave a crease.

Then break again.

Unfold the other end and fold it inward.

Detail the spoon.

After shaping it into the following shape, the origami of the Lantern Festival is completed~