Learn how to make a beautiful bicolor origami butterfly with this easy tutorial. Use 2 colors paper to get different colors on the wings of your butterfly.
This origami butterfly is a new model that I designed. It is very simple and easy to fold, even for origami beginners, and kids will love it!
With its wings of different colors, this butterfly model looks very different from other origami butterflies (the traditional origami butterfly, the famous butterfly from Akira Yoshizawa, and the very beautiful butterflies designed by Michael LaFosse). There are many possible variations and color changes for the wings and the body, and you can choose to make the wings round or angular, the body narrower or more rounded etc. By varying the proportions you can make many different butterflies. I posted pictures of several variations on my Flickr account and I will publish video tutorials for them soon, so be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel.
To make a Butterfly in origami, please follow the instructions from this video on YouTube:
Here are the step-by-step instructions to fold a Butterfly (photo diagram and/or video).
1. Origami Butterfly
What do you think of this butterfly? Could you send me pictures of the butterflies you fold using this model so that I can add them to the gallery? If you would like to participate in a worldwide paper butterflies collection, send me pictures of your butterflies at stephane@origami.plus Thank you!
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→ Photos of origami ButterflyIf you make an origami butterfly, please send me a picture so that I can add it to the origami butterflies gallery below! Thank you!
Origami butterflies based on the same model. Video tutorials coming soon on the Origami Plus YouTube channel!
A beautiful blue and green butterfly folded by Raksha Ananthan. Thank you very much Raksha, I love this paper with the butterfly pattern!
Mariposa de oro by Yñiguez Leandro from Santa Fe, Argentina. Muchas gracias Yñiguez!
Lovely butterflies folded by Annette Bussmann. Thank you very much Annette!
Chasing butterflies at the seaside! (Britanny, France)
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Origami is the art of folding paper to create animals, plants, objects and geometric forms.
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Diagrams to fold origami models can be difficult to interpret sometimes. For each model we show a photo of each step so that you can easily fold all models. Each origami model also has a video that shows how to fold it.
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