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How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

The suits of playing cards are divided into diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs. Today, I will teach you how to fold spades and clubs with colored paper.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

Tools/Materials

Colored paper

Double-sided tape

How to fold spades

1. First prepare a square piece of colored paper. In fact, the most perfect spades should use colored paper with pure black on one side and pure white on the other side, but it is difficult to find it on the market. Today, I will use ordinary colored paper instead, please understand.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

2. First fold the colored paper in half up and down, left and right, and fold it diagonally to create a rice-shaped crease.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

3. Fold the upper and lower sides toward the middle along the dotted line, aligning the sides with center line 1, and fold the left and right sides toward the center in the same way, aligning with center line 2. Creases appear as shown below.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

4. Then, leftFold the lower corner 1 upward along the dotted line, and the top corner 1 coincides with the intersection point 2, and a crease appears.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

5. Do the same for the other three corners, and a total of four dotted line creases will appear as shown in the picture below.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

6. Take the dotted quadrilateral in the middle as the base, and fold the four corners toward the middle to form a three-dimensional shape, as shown in the picture.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

7. Look at the side, pinch 1 and 2 with your thumbs and fold them inward, 3 flatten along the dotted line toward the middle bottom.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

8. Fold all four sides in the same way.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

9. Flatten the standing sides in the middle downwards, one by one.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

10. Flatten alternately, as shown in the picture. Flatten down along the dotted line.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

11. The other three are folded in the same way.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

12. Pull apart and flatten along the dotted lines.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

13. Fold the right side to the left along the dotted line and flatten it, as shown in the picture.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

14. Fold the left side in the same way.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

15. The other three small quadrilaterals are also folded in the same way.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

16. Fold both sides of the bottom inward along the dotted lines.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

17. Fold the bottom edge back a small part.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

18. Fold a small part of the bottom edge of the small square on the right upward diagonally, and then fold a small part horizontally, as shown in the picture.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

19. Fold the bottom edge of the small square on the left in the same way.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

20. Fold back a small portion of the left and right sides, as shown in the picture, the shape of spades has come out. We then use double-sided tape to tape the back of the three small squares that make up the spades, so that the shape of the spades will be more beautiful.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

The spades are ready, do you think they look like it?

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

Folding steps of plum blossoms

The folding method of clubs is evolved on the basis of spades. Follow the steps above to get to step 16.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

For the small square above, fold back a small part of the left and right sides, and fold a small part of the top back, as shown in the picture.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

The bottom edge is also folded back a small part, and the upper and lower corners of the two small squares on the left and right are folded inward a small part, as shown in the picture.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

Fold the left and right sides back a little, and the plum blossom shape will come out.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial

The plum blossoms are ready, do they look like them? You should also learn to do it.

How to fold spades and club hearts from playing cards origami tutorial