As a girl in Shanghai, China, Nancy Bjorge kept her fingers busy folding tiny paper boats. The shapes signified ingots, she says, and her grandmother pressed her to produce them by the hundreds.

With a few folds, brightly-colored squares of paper transform into animals, birds, flowers, and trees. More talented origami enthusiasts also use their skills to create original works based on popular ...

Nintendo's origami Pikmin tutorial teaches patience and problem-solving, just like the award-winning games. Play Nintendo offers free crafts and games for parents and kids, bringing back childhood ...

Do you save the colorful paper that is wrapped on your roll of toilet paper? The wrapping is lightweight and ideal to use as origami paper. Iron the paper wrapping on low heat to smooth out the ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Now that we’re all spending a lot more time at home, it’s a good time to pick up a new craft, whether ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.

A Melbourne-based crafts maker has brought to life some of the world's favourite cartoon characters with origami. Kerri Brooks' love for origami started with a paper cat she was given as a gift. The ...