Origami Prize Heart

Origami prize heart is an interesting origami by Ian Mitchell. It takes a bit of effort to fold it but if you're patient, you'll be rewarded with a really nice heart ribbon at the end. Give it to your mom or dad for Mother's or Father's Day!

Origami prize heart is an intermediate origami. You should be comfortable with squash folds and sink folds because they'll be used often in this origami.

Origami Prize Heart Step 1: Start with a 6 inch x 6 inch (15 cm x 15 cm) square origami paper, color side down. Fold paper in half on both the vertical and horizontal axis. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Prize Heart Step 2: Fold the bottom half to meet center line. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Prize Heart Step 3: Fold both right and left sides to mee the center crease.

Origami Prize Heart Step 4: Pry paper open. Make the diagonal crease and press paper flat to complete the squash fold.

Repeat for the left side:

Origami Prize Heart Step 5: Flip paper over.

Origami Prize Heart Step 6: Make the diagonal fold, moving the top portion of the paper from the left over to the right.

Press paper flat.

Origami Prize Heart Step 7: Make the diagonal fold on the left tip. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Prize Heart Step 8: Pry paper open. Fold the center portion of the paper down and complete with a squash fold on the left.

Origami Prize Heart Step 9: Fold paper where indicated below and move the paper on the right side over to the left.

Press paper flat, creasing where indicated below.

Origami Prize Heart Step 10: Fold on the diagonal as indicated. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Prize Heart Step 11: We're going to repeat what we did in Step 8. Pry paper open. Fold half of the rectangular portion down and complete a squash fold on the right.

Origami Prize Heart Step 12: Fold paper on the diagonal as shown. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Prize Heart Step 13: Now fold the left portion of paper over to the center.

Origami Prize Heart Step 14: Pry paper open. Press paper flat, recreasing on the diagonal folds you made in Step 12.

Origami Prize Heart Step 15: Fold on the diagonal for both the right and left sides. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Prize Heart Step 16: Fold paper on the horizontal line as shown. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Prize Heart Step 17: We're going to transform the paper again. The creases you made in Steps 15 and 16 were in preparation for this step.

Pry paper open on the right and left sides.

Push paper up and towards the top.

Then press it flat.

Origami Prize Heart Step 18: Fold on the diagonal on the top right and left corners. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Prize Heart Step 19: Pry paper open on the left and right sides. As you do so, you can fold this portion of paper in half.

Press paper flat, creasing on both diagonal left and right sides.

Origami Prize Heart Step 20: Fold both left and right tips to meet in the center. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Prize Heart Step 21: Crease on the indicated line below.

Origami Prize Heart Step 22: Now we need to make a sink fold and sink the triangular tip. We've shown how to do this step by step when we made the origami standing heart and origami 8-pointed star . Please refer to those or to our page on sink fold .

Unfold paper as shown below, recrease the indicated folds and make the sink fold.

Top view of the sink fold. See how the tip has disappeared into the paper?

Origami Prize Heart Step 23: We're almost done! Once you've completed the sink fold, you can press down on the right and left sides.

Origami Prize Heart Step 24: Some finishing touches for your heart.

Origami Prize Heart Step 25: Fold down the tips.

Flip paper over and your origami prize heart is complete! Pin the first one on yourself for completing this origami!

A brighter red color paper looks better for this one!