Origami hot air balloon method and process. Illustrated tutorial on how to fold a hot air balloon.

A hot air balloon is an aircraft whose upper half is a large balloon and the lower half is a hanging basket. In the 18th century, the French papermakers Montgolfier brothers invented the hot-air balloon. Inspired by the rising of scraps of paper in a stove, they used paper bags to collect hot air for experiments, so that the paper bags could continue to rise with the airflow, and carried out the worlds first manned hot air balloon at Chateau Mouette in Paris. Flying through the air.

Illustrated tutorial for handmade origami hot air balloons, friends, be sure to use big paper to fold them!

Prepare square colored paper.

Make a rice crease.

Group into small squares.

Repeat on the opposite side.

Repeat on all sides.

Pick out the triangle and repeat on all sides.

Fold the bottom edge in half, leaving the last triangle, and fold the rest in half.

Fold it in half as shown, the reverse side is shown.

Diagonal valley fold.

Continue to fold the rest in half and stuff it in.

Turn the bottom triangle out and fold the bottom triangle in.

From bottom to top, along the second green triangle.

Repeat.

Pull apart, a series of triangles merge, and the periphery is pulled apart.

The bottom four baskets are inserted into each other.

The hot air balloon is folded in a decent way. If you use enough light tissue paper to fold it, maybe you can put in a candle and fly like a Kongming Lantern (^o^)/~