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This is a video for an origami heart. The first step to do an origami heart, grab your
sheet of paper and we're going to make a book fold. So with the white side up take bottom
edge, bring it all the way up to the top, so that they line up. Try to be as precise
as you can and then flatten it down like that. Next open the paper up and we're going to
fold one edge right up to that spot that we just made just like that. So this edge, now
that goes into the middle, it's the one-fourth line, is what we just folded up, just like
that.
Next flip the paper over and now we're going to fold the whole thing in half. So go ahead
and take this side and bring it all the way over to the other side like this. Very nice
and lined up, give it a good crease and then unfold that. And now we're going to take the
bottom edge, we're gong to kite fold that, so it will make a nice little diagonal fold.
It's going to come up right up along that middle line, so this whole edge right here
at the bottom is going to line up exactly on that middle line. Get it as precise as
you can on the left side and also on the right side, and then try not to have them overlap
at all, make sure that they meet up nice and even right along that edge like that.
Flip it over and now we're going to fold these two edges into the middle as well, so both
of these are going to line up right into that middle section like that. Next we're going
to make two diagonal folds. We're going to fold the top left corner and the top right
corner. We're going to fold both of those down, right into that middle spot on both
sides like that. Now the next step is called a spread squash. What's going to happen is
we're going to take the top point and we're going to fold it all the way down to the bottom
point.
We're basically going to fold the entire thing in half, but there's a part on the back that's
not going to be too happy about it. So what we want to do, go ahead and pick the entire
model up and just fold the whole thing in half, all the flaps, all of everything. There's
a couple extra-- these little panels right here-- juts go ahead and fold everything down,
so that the whole thing just gets folded all the way in half, and now we've got these two
extra panels right here.
Go ahead and spread them open like this, and it'll make a little triangle that we can squish
down and flatten like that, and make sure when you do it, that this line right here
is consistent all the way across. So don't squash it down like at this angle or a little
bit up like at that angle, try and get it right in the middle. I'm going to do it on
the left hand side and also on the right hand side.
Next just fold down just a little tip, right there in the top corner on that side and also
on the opposite side just like that.
Now the last step is we've got two flaps right here. What we want to do is, we want to take
this triangle, we want to pick it up, and you see how there's a pocket right here on
the bottom triangle? We're going to take the top triangle and fit it underneath and inside
that bottom triangle, so it locks in there and it stays nice and flat. Then once you
pick it up, that's the last step; that is the origami heart.