Origami Animals - Origami Pig

This is a fairly straight-forward origami pig and the first part is actually the same as the origami house .

Origami Pig

Start off with a square origami paper, color side facing down.

Fold it in half:

Open the paper and you should see a crease in the center:

Now, fold both halves to meet the crease in the center:

Fold the paper in half again, this time from right to left.

Open it back up:

Fold both halves to meet the center crease like so:

Pry open the top left corner:

and press it down to make a triangle:

Repeat the fold for the other 3 corners - top right, bottom right and bottom left. All 4 triangles meet in the center:

Now, lift up half the right side from the center:

and fold it over:

Fold the paper in 2, bringing the bottom half up to meet the top.

Bring the left tip over to meet the dash line shown in the picture below:

Do the same for the other side:

Repeat the fold for the right tip, bringing the right tip to meet the crease:

Repeat the previous step for the other side:

Make a slight crease on the right side and make an inside reverse fold:

Top viewof the inside reverse fold:

Now, make a crease on the marked line shown below:

and do another inside reverse fold, this time pressing the fold down. Here's the top view:

and you should get this:

That's it! Here's the piggy:

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