Origami Horse

For my final origami project, I will be crafting a horse. The instructions will come from the book "Origami Farm Animals" By Lisa Miles. Even with four whole origami creations under my belt, I am still far from being good at origami. So, since this will be my very last origami project, I will try to make it the most high quality creation. I can already tell that this will be a difficult project because the first step to this is making a fish fold, a moderately difficult fold.

STEPS

Step 1: The first step  starts difficult right off the bat, with a fish fold. This involves multiple different folds just to create the base fold. The base fold is a fish fold, which comes from a kite fold, which comes from a multitude of valley folds. I know, it's a lot for a first step. I don't think the book did a very good job of explaining the fold, as it just said "Open out the top left corner. Take hold of the inside flap and pull it down to meet the center crease," (Miles, 7).

Step 2: The next step is to make an inside reverse fold to create the neck of the horse.

Step 3: The next step is to make the head of the horse. While it looks like the Loch Ness Monster right now, we can only hope that the final product is better. So far, I haven't had any major problems with the folds or anything like that.

Step 4: The final step is to fold the legs down to make a horse instead of a seal. When folding the legs down, the author says that it should be able to stand on its own, "Stand up your origami horse on its strong legs," (Miles, 27). As you can see here, yes my horse was able to stand on its own. Sadly however, this horse's legs do not look very strong and does not look like it will be very prosperous in racing or anything.















Well, there you have it, an origami horse. I would say that I am content with my results of my origami blog as a whole. I saw constant improvement throughout, and going into this, that is all that I had sought for. Although I'm not very good at origami, I am starting to see the beauty in it as an art, and that it can even be a fun hobby to have sometimes. What do you guys think of my progress or lack there of in origami?

Let me know in the comments below. Thanks for reading my blog!


Miles, Lisa. Origami Farm Animals. New York, New York: Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2014. Print.