Origami Modular Heart Cube

The origami modular heart cube is another variation of the cube. This time there is a heart on each face of the cube. You need to fold 6 units to make a cube.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 1: Start by cutting a square origami paper in half. We only need half a sheet for each unit.

If you use the regular 6 inch (15cm) square paper, you'll end up with a very small 1.5 inch cube.

We ended up using a large 25cm x 25cm (~10inch x 10inch) square origami paper and cutting that in half. We used 3 large sheets, each of a different color, to make the 6 units needed for this cube.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 2: Fold paper in half on both horizontal and vertical axis. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 3: Fold both the right and left sides to the center. Crease well.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 4: Fold the bottom edge to the center. Crease well.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 5: Fold the bottom part to the center again. Crease well.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 6: Repeat Steps 4 and 5 for the top half of the paper. When completed, your paper should now look like this.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 7: Unfold paper. Fold the bottom edge over the first horizontal crease.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 8: Flip paper over. Fold both bottom tips to the center. Crease well.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 9: Now make a mountain fold where indicated. Remember that mountain folds are the opposite of valley folds. If you're not sure what they are, please refer to our separate page on valley and mountain folds .

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 10: Now fold the bottom edge to line AB.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 11: Make another mountain fold where indicated.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 12: Flip paper over. Fold all 4 tips to the center.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 13: Make 2 vertical folds as shown.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 14: Flip paper over. Make the 4 small diagonal mountain folds to shape the heart.

And this completes one unit.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 15: Repeat Steps 1 to 14 and make a total of 6 units.

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 16: Now, if you've made the other modular origami on this site before, you'd know that to assemble the units, often times we just insert the tips into pockets.

This cube is no different. Each unit has 2 tips and 2 pockets. We'll utilize them to assemble the cube.

Starting with 2 units, insert one tip into one pocket as shown below.

Here's a closer look....

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 17: Now, take another unit and insert its tip into the other pocket.

Here's a closer look....

Origami Modular Heart Cube Step 18: Now just repeat Steps 16 and 17 to assemble the rest of the units.

And here's the completed origami modular heart cube!