Epic Origami

The Baggi box is a really cool model that was designed by Giuseppi Baggi. It is a very sturdy and practical box, but it has one super neat feature. It can be folded from a sheet of origami paper or an A4 piece of paper (8.5 by 11 inches). When you fold it from an A4 piece of paper, you get different sizes of boxes depending on how you orient the paper to begin with. This is a good model to make out of patterned cardstock paper. It makes your box even sturdier and makes it look pretty cool. Step 1: Start with your paper color-side down. If you are using A4 paper, orienting it vertically will give you a cube shaped box, while orienting it horizontally will give you a skinny box (pictures of each of these boxes are at the bottom of the page) Step 2: Valley fold the top up to the bottom, crease, and unfold Step 3: Valley fold the top and bottom edges to the center, crease, and unfold Step 4: Valley fold the bottom corners in so their edges align with the lowe...

The coin purse is a very easy and practical model to fold. Once folded it will hold quite a bit of coins, and you can always make more. You could even have a different color coin purse for each type of coin! Step 1: Start with your paper color side down Step 2: Valley fold the bottom edge up to the top Step 3: Valley fold the right edge to the left so it is five centimeters in length. This divides the paper about into thirds. If you don't have a ruler, you can just roll the paper into thirds. This is not as precise, but still works. Step 4: Valley fold the left edge so it aligns with the right edge Step 5: Unfold and your paper is now neatly divided into thirds Step 6: Take the far right side and squash fold  it flat Step 7: Now squash fold the left side down Step 8: Once it matches the picture below turn the model over Step 9: Valley fold the right edge in Step 10: Valley fold the left edge so it ...

The shuttle box is a traditional and simple Japanese origami model. It is similar to the  traditional box . I personally prefer this box over the traditional one. Step 1: Fold a  blintz base Step 2: Unfold the blintz base Step 3: Valley fold point A (the top point) to point B Step 4: Valley fold the top edge down Step 5: Repeat steps 3 and 4 on the three remaining corners so your model resembles a frame Step 6: Turn the model over and valley fold the left and right edges to the center Step 7: Unfold the last two folds, then valley fold the top and bottom edges to the center Step 8: Valley fold edge AB to edge CD. Make sure to only fold the top layer Step 9: Now valley fold corner A and corner B in to points C and D It should look like this: Step 10: Now valley fold the top edge down Step 11: Rotate the model 180 degrees Step 12: From here repeat steps 8 throug...