Origami tulips: beautiful and elegant

Perhaps, it is the flowers that serve as a traditional, invariable and always desired addition to a woman's gift for any holiday. Unfortunately, this beauty lives in the vase for a very short time. However, if you show a little diligence, zeal and, of course, fantasy, in a few minutes you can create a beautiful and original flower from a sheet of ordinary colored paper. It is a unique gift made with a soul and with your own hands. It will be pleasant not only to the recipient, but also to the donor. A help in this origami. How to make a tulip with this ingenious Japanese art? Very simple. You just need to learn the basic stages and rules.

First of all, you need to select the material. For any flower is ideal for such paper, which does not crack on the folds. In addition, it must be clean, undamaged. Perhaps, it's best to take a plain white paper for photocopiers or a sheet of colored paper (sold in sets for children). Well, for shank stems recommend buying a crepe paper. By the way, if you want to make unusual tulips, origami quite allows you to take corrugated paper, as well as create more than one flower, and whole bouquets or arms. If loved ones love these flowers, you will get a great gift.

So, we sorted out the material. Now the flowers themselves, tulips. Origami gives an opportunity through the paper to convey the beauty and romanticism of this flower, which blooms in the spring one of the very first. It should be said that, according to tradition, it is considered to be a symbol of longevity and youth. That's why children and even adults like to draw, cut, and also fold these flowers.

To start folding a flower, you need to take a square sheet of colored (crepe or corrugated) paper, a pencil and, of course, glue. The color of paper is a matter of taste, the concept of crafts and preferences, but it is better to choose a natural shade that is close to real live colors. Tulips (origami makes it possible to create a variety of sizes) can be white, red, pink and yellow. First, the taken sheet is folded along one diagonal, then - on the second, so that between the corners were found wrinkles. Now the figure needs to be unfolded and folded exactly in half. The result is a rectangle.

The next stage, which is necessary to make tulips: origami prescribes to fold the corners in this fold along this rectangle. As a result, there will be a triangle. Now you need to bend the bottom corners from the front side. Then the flower is shifted so that the free edges lie on the left and on the right, and below it there is an uneven triangle. On the reverse side, the same is done. As a result, a rhombus is obtained. Now we just need to insert free petals into each other, inflate the flower, spread out the whole craft.

The last step is to make a stalk with a leaf. In origami, flowers (tulip including) are created as follows: first we make the flower, and only then we pass to everything else. So, for the stem a rectangle of green paper is taken, it is put upside down, the left and right corners bend to the middle. Now you need to bend the resulting shape of the bottom corners in such a way that they are in the middle in contact. The result is something that resembles a rhombus. The upper corners again bend to the middle, the whole figure is folded in half (horizontally, and then along the vertical), and then reaches for the inner triangle (this is the stem). Well, the outer one is pulled aside, getting the shape of a leaf. A stem with a bud is connected with the help of glue, and everything is finished.