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How to fold a simple origami heart using square handmade paper (step-by-step illustration)

Children learn to use paperOrigami A heart shape can be used as Mother’s Day Or handmade gifts for important holidays such as Teachers' Day. This Heart-shaped origami is the simplest folding method. During the origami heart-shaped process, children not only exercise their fine hand movements, but also learn basic geometric shapes such as squares and triangles.

Materials: 1 square piece of handmade paper

Steps
How to fold a simple origami heart using square handmade paper (step-by-step illustration)
1. With the back of the square paper facing up, fold it in half along the two diagonal lines and unfold it, leaving a cross fold line on the paper.
How to fold a simple origami heart using square handmade paper (step-by-step illustration)
2. Fold the upper corner of the opened paper downward until the corner tip coincides with the intersection of the cross fold line.
How to fold a simple origami heart using square handmade paper (step-by-step illustration)
3. Fold the lower corner of the paper upward until it coincides with the midpoint of the upper edge (refer to the small picture in the upper left corner of the picture to fold).
How to fold a simple origami heart using square handmade paper (step-by-step illustration)

4. Then fold the right part of the center line upward until the bottom edge (shown by the green solid line in the lower left picture) coincides with the middle line (the red dotted line in the lower left picture).
How to fold a simple origami heart using square handmade paper (step-by-step illustration)
5. Fold the left side of the center line upward in the same way.
How to fold a simple origami heart using square handmade paper (step-by-step illustration)
6. Turn the paper over and fold the top left and right triangles inward until the top corners touch the bottom edge.
How to fold a simple origami heart using square handmade paper (step-by-step illustration)
7. The triangles on both sides (shown by the red dotted lines) are also folded inward.
How to fold a simple origami heart using square handmade paper (step-by-step illustration)
8. Turn over, and a simple and beautiful origami heart shape will be folded.