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Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Last time I taught you how to fold one type of butterfly using dollars. Today I will teach you how to fold another type of butterfly using dollars. It is simpler than the previous origami butterfly. This origami does not require If you cut it, you can fold a beautiful butterfly. In order not to waste dollars, you can also try to learn it by yourself using origami paper that is about the size of a dollar. After you learn it well, you will not be afraid of wasting your dollars. Interested students can follow Let’s learn how to fold dollar butterflies together!

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 1: Select a U.S. dollar, fold it in half, and then expand it.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 2: Fold the bottom edge of the left dollar bill paper with the middle crease made in Step 1. Repeat on the right side except fold the top edge of the paper down with the middle crease.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 2: Fold the corners in half

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 4: Fold down the upper right corner. Fold the lower left corner up.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 5: Take the paper under the valley and fold it to highlight the main body of the strip model.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 6: The pleats (folds) behind the right side of the model are the left side of the model.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 7: Turn clockwise a quarter turn.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 8: Fold (fold back) the right half of the model behind the left half. Expand.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 9: A valley fold that spans from the "head" of the base of the butterfly model. The angles of the pleats vary, which will change the size of the ribcage. A convenient endpoint is the edge of the dollar mark from the quarter mark.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 10: Return the left wing to the left. Follow existing creases in one step

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 11: Fold the side wings back to the right. Make the left and right wings symmetrical by adding the wingtips (green dots).

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 12: Heres what it looks like. The ribcage is intact. The next steps will be to make the upper and lower wings. Open the model like a butterfly.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 13: Wrinkle the right wing behind the left wing. Follow the paper overlapping ridges.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 14: Expand the basic butterfly shape.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 15: Repeat the mountain fold on the left.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 16: Mountain folds (folds) of the wings. The crease should start from the "head" character of the butterfly wings. The position of the folds can be changed changing the size of the upper and lower wings.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 17: Swing the wings from the folded wings at the bottom of the valley. Make the fold expand the "head" butterflyButterfly has long low wings. The location of the folds may vary.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Step 17: Money Eds Butterfly Complete!

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Please note that you can change the position of the wings and the chest fold. The butterfly on the left is folded in half to mark all the steps. The butterfly on the right is the fold in the middle crease which is not quite the case. It gives a slightly different look.

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies

The beautiful butterfly is finished!

Illustrated tutorial for using dollar origami butterflies