How to fold an origami bearded gnome
Fold one red square into a pointy hat with a band, a white beard and a little red nose. Pleat a blue kite coat with a belt, and snip it to swing out two boots.
You need: A 15 cm red square, a 12 cm blue square, scissors, a glue stick and a black and a white pen. Hard, 15 steps, about 30 minutes.
Steps
- Beard. Red square, red side up, turned like a diamond. Fold the bottom corner up on a level crease 3.2 cm below the middle. The white is his beard.
- Nose. Fold the tip of the beard back down on a level crease 2.5 cm above the middle. A little red nose sits on the beard.
- Hat band. Fold the top corner down on a level crease 7 mm above the nose crease.
- Hat band: fold it back. Fold it back up on a crease 9 mm lower. The ledge is the hat band, and the hat stands tall again.
- Point the beard. Fold each side behind on a slant from just above the beard, 3.8 cm from the middle, to 7 mm from the middle of the bottom edge.
- Pointy hat. Fold each side of the hat behind on a slant from its tip to the corner you just made. A tall, pointy hat!
- Coat: new sheet. Set the head aside. Take the blue square, blue side up, turned like a diamond.
- Coat: crease the middle. Fold the left corner over onto the right corner.
- Coat: open it. Open it again.
- Coat: kite behind. Fold the upper edges behind to meet on the middle line at the back.
- Boots: snip. Cut up the middle crease from the bottom point, 3.4 cm.
- Boots: swing them out. Fold each half of the bottom point out to the side on a slanted crease from the top of the snip. His white boots point out.
- Coat: belt. Fold the bottom of the coat up on a level crease 4.7 cm above the top of the snip.
- Coat: belt ledge. Fold it back down on a crease 9 mm higher. The ledge is his belt.
- Put him together. Glue the head over the top of the coat, so the beard hangs down his front.
Hello, garden!
Draw his bushy moustache and a white belt buckle. Stand him by a flower pot to guard the garden.