How To Make An Easy Origami Swan

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Origami Swan

Learn how to fold a traditional origami swan using 1 sheet of square paper.

The traditional origami swan might be the easiest of the origami birds. You can also use this method on paper napkins.

All you need is 1 sheet of square paper.

Origami Swan Instructions

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   1. This is the front of our origami paper, our swan will be mostly this colour.

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   2. Flip the paper over to the back, origami paper is usually white on this side.

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   3. Fold the right point over to the left point creating a central vertical crease.

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   4. Unfold the previous step.

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   5. Fold the lower left and right diagonal edges to align with the central vertical crease.

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   6. Flip the paper over to the other side.

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   7. Fold the left and right diagonal edges to the central vertical crease.

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   8. Fold the bottom point up to the top point.

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17 Comments for “How To Make An Easy Origami Swan”

1. Thanks for the guide, it was easy to follow 🙂

   1. This worked really well.👍

2. Your guide was very easy to follow. I wasted a lot of time trying to do the swan on my own, hence the creases.

3. Great – thank you!

4. Thank you for simple, clear instruction with great diagrams.

5. Thank you so much. Loved making the swans… Lots of them ! The first instruction which tells you which color will be the dominant one was important for paper that’s coloured on both sides.

6. Helped me out a lot! Its been a long time since i learned how to fold another origami model

   1. Thanks for the clear instructions.

7. Love it

8. The Origami Swan 🦢 was really easy to make.🤩😍

9. cool

10. very nice

11. I tried it, but it came out bad…

    1. It looks really good because the steps were really easy to follow

12. There are a few things that went wrong.

13. hi

14. I love it