Origami Scottie Dog or Origami Scottish Terrier

Origami Scottie Dog Step 1: Start with a square origami paper color side down.

Origami Scottie Dog Step 2: Now fold in half on the vertical and horizontal axis. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Scottie Dog Step 3: Rotate the paper so that it's a diamond shape. Fold in half on horizontal axis. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Scottie Dog Step 4: Now fold both sides in to meet the center crease.

Origami Scottie Dog Step 5: We'll work on the right side first. Fold the flap out. Now fold the right tip to about the center point between the tip and vertical crease line, indicated by the arrow in the photo below.

Origami Scottie Dog Step 6: Now fold the right side back to the center, with the crease the same as in Step 4.

Origami Scottie Dog Step 7: Now moving to the left side, fold the paper out to the left, with just a little bit sticking out. This is the tail.

Origami Scottie Dog Step 8: Now fold the entire paper in half, bring the top down to the bottom.

Origami Scottie Dog Step 9: Now fold the paper upwards at the dash line shown below.

Origami Scottie Dog Step 10: Flip paper over and fold the paper upwards at the dash line shown below.

Origami Scottie Dog Step 11: Now fold the paper down at the dash line shown below.

Origami Scottie Dog Step 12: FLIP paper over and fold paper downwards at the dash line shown below.

Hey, it looks like an origami dog already! I guess if you didn't want an origami scottie dog, then you can stop here and have an origami dog!

Origami Scottie Dog Step 13: Now we need to turn this origami dog to an origami scottie dog. We need to give this dog a beard!

Let's look at the "underside" of the dog. See how there's black paper tucked under the "chin" area? Let's gently pull that out, flatten and transform this origami dog into an origami scottie dog!

and your origami scottie dog is now complete!

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