Origami 2-Unit Flower

This is a non-traditional 8-petal origami flower. It requires folding 2 units and then gluing them together to form one complete flower. This is a slightly more intermediate origami. You should be familiar with mountain and valley folds as well as the waterballoon base.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 1: Start by folding the origami square base with the color on the inside. This is a commonly used base in origami. The square base video and link are below.

Origami Square Base Video

You should have the following to start with.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 2: Fold both the right and left sides to meet in the center. Make a horizontal valley fold as well.

Crease well and unfold.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 3: Flip paper over. Repeat the 3 folds on this side. Crease well and unfold.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 4: Now completely unfold the paper.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 5: Recrease paper to form a waterballoon base . Then proceed to collapse paper into a waterbomb base.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 6: Fold the right upper layer over to the left.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 7: Recrease the indicated lines into valley and mountain folds as shown below.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 8: Make the diagonal fold shown below. As you make the fold, move point A over to point B.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 9: We're going to repeat Steps 7 and 8 on this layer as well. First recrease the folds.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 10: Make the diagonal fold and move point C over to point D.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 11: We've to recrease some folds again.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 12: Make the 2 diagonal folds shown below. As you do so, point F will move upwards and to the left.

E-F is now a straight diagonal line.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 13: Flip paper over.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 14: Recrease the folds one more time.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 15: Now make the diagonal fold. As you do so, move point H over to point G.

Move both point H and point I over to point G.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 16: We've completed one unit. Make another unit so that we can form an 8-petal flower. You can form a 4-petal flower with one unit.

Here's the top view.

Here's the bottom view.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 17: Repeat Steps 1 to 16 and make a total of 2 units.

Once you've made 2 units, add some adhesive in the center and glue the 2 units together.

We used a paper clip to hold the 2 units together while the adhesive dries.

Origami 2-Unit Flower Step 18: Once the adhesive has dried, you can proceed to form the petals. It's really easy.

Just pry the paper open and pull down the tips.

Repeat for all the other 7 petals and your origami 2-unit flower is complete!