Perching Origami Crow Tutorial – Halloween DIY – Paper Kawaii

Once you’ve finished folding it, you can place your finished crow on any ledge as long as its tail can fit. Try your hand at this peace dove origami bird if you’re seeking for more birds to fold. It makes a great decoration, amusing small gift for friends or family, or ornament for a greeting card. Or, in keeping with the Halloween theme, create an origami ghost or witch hat!

Items You’ll Need Supplies

One six-by-six-inch square piece of black paper with both sides

Guidelines

First Folds

Start with the white (or another color) side of your paper up if you are using two-tone paper. If both sides of your paper are black, it makes no difference
how you get started.

Fold your paper in half starting from the left side to the right side

Open the paper.

The paper should then be folded in half once more, but horizontally from top to bottom this time.

Open the paper.

Turn the paper over and gently press out any wrinkles so that it lays flat.

The paper should be folded in half diagonally so that the upper right and lower left corners are connected. After unfolding, fold once more diagonally to join the upper left and lower right corners.

Unfold the paper completely. At this stage, you should be left with the remnants of an X crease on your paper.

Tips

Try to make each fold only one time. An origami project works out better the sharper and more organized the folds are.

Although using paper with the same color on both sides is ideal for this origami crow, as our completed example shows, using paper with different colors on either side will prevent you from seeing both colors.

starting creases on an origami crow

Incorporate the Corners

Turn your paper over to the opposite side.

Bring the corners on the left and right together in the center.

The top point will collapse down on top due to the prior folds.

After all is said and done, you will have an origami “square base” or “preliminary base.”

Folding in the corners

Make the Base

As indicated, fold your square’s lower left and right sides down to the central crease.

Over the top, fold the top point down.

Open up the edges.

After making the folds on the left and right, reverse them.

Let the bottom part open.

Turn the folds so that the top point becomes the bottom point.

To make an origami bird base, fold

Shape Your Legs

Once you’ve finished the second side, you’ll have an origami bird base.

The two bottom points should be folded up the middle horizontal crease. This will become the legs of the bird.

To make the legs, fold both points outward and downward toward opposing sides.

Origami bird legs folded

Make Make the Foot

Reverse fold the feet and unfold the final step. You want your paper to resemble the second image in the group below.

Turn the foot’s upper portion downward.

Repeat the previous two steps on the other foot.

Finishing Folds
Fold the top downward.
Flip the representation over to the opposite side, left to right.

Fold the template in half.

Fold the skull down to an appropriate angle.

Open the top and invert the fold.