How to fold a triangular football with paper. Illustrated tutorial on handmade origami football.

Mentioning football always brings back a lot of good memories. Playing football requires a large venue. The one I recommend today does not require a venue, just a piece of unused paper. Then It is a triangular paper product called a paper football. You can make a paper football with a piece of paper on your desk in one minute. No other materials are needed. If you want to know how to fold a triangular football with paper, please refer to the following tutorial illustration of a handmade origami football.

Method/Steps

1Prepare a piece of standard A4 paper. You can tear a page out of your notebook or grab one from the printer. A4 paper is ideal for making paper footballs, but it doesn't matter if the paper is slightly larger or smaller. Notebook or printer paper works better than thicker paper or construction paper because it is lighter, easier to fold, and easier to use in paper football games.
- Using new paper will make the football tidier. New paper also helps with decorating the football, if desired.
2Fold the paper in half lengthwise. Fold one side of the paper toward the other, either left to right or right to left. Make sure the sides of the paper line up so you get a neat vertical crease in the middle of the paper.
- Press one corner of the crease with your thumb and index finger and slide it toward the other end to deepen the crease.
- To make the crease more noticeable, unfold the paper, turn it over, and fold it again to create a crease again.
- After making the crease, unfold the paper.
3Cut or tear the paper along the crease.Use scissors to cut along the vertical crease, Or pinch both sides of the paper with your hands and gently tear it in the opposite direction. We will end up with two strips of the same size.
- You can use one of them to make a paper football - if you like, you can keep the other one and make it again.
4Fold a strip of paper in half horizontally. A new strip of paper will then be formed that is half as wide and twice as thick as the original. Hold the new note vertically in front of you.
5Fold the lower left corner of the paper to the other side to form a triangle. One side of the triangle should be aligned with the vertical side of the paper. The upper side of the triangle should be parallel to the horizontal side of the paper - the width. Basically its a right triangle, and the right angles of this right triangle coincide with the length of the note.
6Flip the triangle upward. This will form a new thicker triangle.
7Continue flipping the triangle until you reach the top. Once you become proficient, you can make many triangles with almost equal lengths.
8Undo the last step and fold it into a triangle. Fold the upper right corner down to create a new triangle and make one side of the new triangle coincide with the old triangle and they are on the same horizontal line. It doesn't matter if the combination of these two triangles is not standard enough. You will gain something with more practice.
9Cut off a corner of about 2.5cm long from the upper triangle. You can also tear off more paper or stop right there and be more careful when inserting.
10Tuck the remaining part of the cut triangle into another triangle.
11Flat paper football. Flat the triangle until you have a flat paper football. Now everything is ready and you can start playing paper football game.
12Decorated paper football (can select). If you want to make your paper football more personalized, you can use a marker or pen to draw crosses or other football-characteristics on it.
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Tips

When making, use scissors more to cut and less hands to tear, so the effect will be better.
Repeat this process with the other half of the paper so you have two paper footballs.
Don’t use paper footballs toward other people’s eyes.
You can use 2 to 3 sheets of paper to thicken it.
You can make a thicker paper football by folding the paper first instead of tearing it. In this way, one piece of paper can only make one paper football.