How to Fold an Origami Form of Beauty 30
Easy level, 22 steps. Froebel Form of Beauty. From The Paradise of Childhood (Wiebé), 1869, plate 71. Public domain.
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All 22 steps
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Step 1. Start colored side up. Fold in half corner to corner, then unfold.
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Step 2. Fold in half along the other diagonal, then unfold.
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Step 3. Fold in half from left to right, then unfold.
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Step 4. Fold in half from top to bottom, then unfold.
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Step 5. Fold one corner to the center.
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Step 6. Fold the next corner to the center.
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Step 7. Fold the next corner to the center.
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Step 8. Fold the next corner to the center.
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Step 9. Turn the paper over.
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Step 10. Fold one corner of the new square to the center.
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Step 11. Fold the next corner to the center.
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Step 12. Fold the next corner to the center.
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Step 13. Fold the next corner to the center.
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Step 14. Turn the paper over. Each small square has a point at the center.
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Step 15. Fold the point at the center out to the outer corner of its square.
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Step 16. Fold the next point out the same way.
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Step 17. Fold the next point out the same way.
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Step 18. Fold the next point out the same way.
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Step 19. Fold the tip behind, in to the middle of the inner edge.
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Step 20. Fold the next tip behind the same way.
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Step 21. Fold the next tip behind the same way.
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Step 22. Fold the next tip behind the same way.
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Done. This is Froebel's Form of Beauty 30 (Wiebé 1869, plate 71).