A few people have requested a tutorial on the mini origami book that I posted about a few months ago.
Here is my new video tutorial for the books, it is a little simpler, but if you prefer a photo tutorial, keep scrolling 🙂
To view the tutorial, click on the first image, it should enlarge. You can use the arrows on the left to navigate. To exit the image, click on the white space around the images.
I used 6×6 inch paper to start with.
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- 1 piece of 6×6 inch colour paper for the cover, 4 peices of white for the pages.
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- Fold one of the white squares in half.
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- Cut the square in half using the last crease…
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- Align one of the half’s onto the other squares, and cut the whole lot at once… or you could do one by one.
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- A bunch of halfs! you will need 7 to make a book with 10 pages.
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- Fold a half in half again
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- Fold it again
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- And twice more, so it looks liek a spikey number 3, or a W.
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- Do all 7 pieces. Make sure they are all one way up.
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- An easy mistake, make sure you don’t join them like this.
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- Join them so that the right hand one over laps the left.
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- Keep joining them together, you can see that the far left edge will be tucked into the cover.
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- They are all joined.
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- I like to squash mine, and optionally glue them together where they join.
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- You should have this.
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- Cut the coloured paper for the cover in half.
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- Take the clip off the pages and wrap the cover around them.
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- It should be like a sandwich! align it so that you have equal space on each side and equal lengths for to tuck in.
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- You can squash the spine of the book now.
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- Here is where you crease the spine.
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- Fold one edge over and make a crease.
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- Unfold. You can further define these creases and make sure they are even.
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- Fold this flap over at the last crease you made.
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- Fold the cover and align the 2 edges together.
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- Fold the other flap over so that it is the same length as the other one.
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- This is what you should have.
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- Make sure that your pages fit in perfectly and re-fold it if its too long.
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- Hold the pages in the centre of the cover.
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- with a pen or pencil, mark where the book comes up to
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- This is where you cut.
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- Fold these flaps in.
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- Fold the 2 flaps in so you get this.
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- Slot the far left end of the pages into the cover.
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- You should have this, Slot the other end in to the cover.
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- It will spring out like this!
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- Mine was a bit too long on one edge so I unfolded it and made it shorter.
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- Here is what you should have, and here is how small it is compared to the 6×6 inch paper!
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- You should squash your books somewhere so that they loose they’re springiness!!! You can see that different sized paper will make lots of different sized books, it is very addicting.
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I’ve been loonikg for a post like this forever (and a day)
I literally want to run into your house and steal all your origami.
Thanks for all these awesome tutorials! Thanks for 8 years of awesomeness.
Thank you so much! I love these books and have now made an uncountable amount. Your tutorial is very simple and easy to follow. Keep blogging and go further.
Just a question: Do you happen to know how to a book lock on these mini books?
Like in this picture:
Thanks again. 🙂
You’re welcome! I’m glad they turned out well 😀
You can add the lock by folding 1/4 of the square paper you used for the cover into a thin strip. cut some off for the ‘lock’ the other bit will need to be glued from the inside back cover, the ‘lock’ bit will need to be added to the front cover by cutting 2 slits into the cover and then looping it through and glueing on the back (of the front cover). Hope that helps!
X Chrissy
Hi, I’m very new to blogging, so I’m doing a sort of practice blog where I try out DIY crafting tutorials and post my results. For my very first post I tried out this tutorial! It was a lot of fun and your video was super easy to follow. I have literally zero followers as of right now and I don’t know if I’ll ever get very many, but I still wanted to let you know that my review of this tutorial is out there. If you aren’t comfortable with me using your tutorial for my little blogging project, just… Read more »
Wow, thats a great review, I am pleased that it turned out so well! And I am of course happy for you to use the images, I will share your post on some of my social accounts ☺
Your blogging idea is great too, a lot of bloggers do this, for example, How about Orange did that too (with the same tutorial!). It is a great way for people to see some ‘Real’ results instead of shiny examples us tutorial makers post 😀 All the best and good luck with the blog! x Chrissy
Thank you for looking at it and sharing! I’m glad that you liked it 🙂
What size of paper did u use for the little red book???
I think I started with A5 paper then cut it in half. You can make taller books by tryout out different sizes of paper. 😀
How many pieces of paper did you use???
It could have been 7 or 9. Sorry to be vague it was 3 years ago! 🙂
Sorry for asking so many questions I like miniatures
♥ Great Tutorial! Can’t wait to try. Thanks! ♥
very nice i will make
Sure you will. -.-
its great. I already made one! I’m gonna make another one! Thank you so much!
So pretty! I need to try this right now! Thank you for sharing!
Wow! Those are cute little books!
Thank you…THANK YOU…for this FABULOUS tutorial!
I love the step-by-step photos & the instructions for each photo.
Your time spent on this is GREATLY appreciated!
I love these too!! I’m making them to use for a boardgame…
LOVE TRYING NEW CRAFTS:) I’LL BE TRYING THIS AS SOON AS I FINISH THE SOCK MONKEYS I’M WORKING ON FOR MY GRANDSONS. I ALSO GOT THE PATTERN FOR THEM ONLINE.