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How to fold an origami tomato

A red square folds behind at its edges and corners into a plump round tomato, and a small green square folds into the star-shaped calyx on top.

You need: 1 red square, 1 green square about half as wide, and a glue stick. Easy, 7 steps, about 5 minutes.

Steps

  1. Tomato: fold top and bottom behind. Start with the red square, red side up. Fold a thin strip at the top and at the bottom behind.
  2. Tomato: fold the corners behind. Fold all four corners behind, big folds.
  3. Tomato: round it off. Fold the eight new little corners behind, just a tiny bit each, so the tomato is nice and round.
  4. Calyx: new sheet. Set the tomato aside. Take the small green square, white side up, like a diamond.
  5. Calyx: make a triangle. Fold the top corner down to meet the bottom corner.
  6. Calyx: spread the points. Fold the left and right corners down, creasing from just beside the middle of the top edge, so they point down and out like a star.
  7. Glue on the tomato. Glue the tomato behind the green star, so the star sits at the top of the red.

Fresh from the vine!

Add a white shine on the red with a gel pen.

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