Make an Origami Paper Basket
This simple little basket can be made from something as simple as a sheet of paper. Use it to hold sweets, loose change, or anything light and small.
Steps
- Start out with a square sheet of paper. If you can't get square paper use a4 and fold it to get a square the tear off the side.
- Make a fold from all the corners: Diagonal to diagonal and the other 2 corners. Fold the paper in half from the top to the bottom and from the left to the right. You should have 4 folds.
- Take 2 opposite corners and fold them in so they meet in the middle.
- Fold the 2 trapeziums in towards the middle and then stand them up. These are the sides of your box.
- Take the sides that slope down and push down on them and flick the pointy bit up.
- Fold it down to the level of the other sides.
- Do the same to the other side.
- You have made your basket!
Warnings
- Be careful of paper cuts; these are about the only danger in making this basket.