Illustration of how to fold an octagonal dart. Handmade origami octagonal dart folding method.

Although the four-corner darts are also good, they always feel that they are not high-end and classy enough. Let’s take a look at this very stylish octagonal ninja shuriken origami tutorial below. It looks much better~

Prepare the colored paper for origami.

Cut the colored paper into a square, fold it in half along the two diagonal lines and unfold it.

Fold the square colored paper in half up, down, left and right to get four equal small squares. Fold the top two corners diagonally toward the center.

Fold left and right in half.

Fold the triangle inward along the lower diagonal line folded above.

What it looks like after folding it in.

Follow the same method and fold out seven more components of other colors.

Insert the first parallelogram into the position where the second quadrilateral is folded inwards.

Fold the longer part of one side of the second parallelogram toward the inside of the first triangle to fix it

Fold the other side inwards as well.

Use the same method to connect the other six parallelograms to form a ring.

Push each parallelogram toward the middle.

Gradually push out each half of the parallelogram.

The gap in the middle will gradually be filled, and the ring will continue to shrink.

Finally adjust the details, arrange the eight parallelograms evenly, and a beautiful and cool octagonal dart is completed.