How to Fold an Origami Box with a Lid

[Background Music Playing] See more at foldsomething.com “Coastline” – composed and performed by Kashan Shaikh Here actually how to making origami box. You are going to need two square sheet of paper. I will be using 12” x 12” scrapbook paper to make a nice big box. [Demo] We will start by folding in half. [Demo] And unfold and fold the half in toward the middle. [Demo] Unfold again and rotate the page, fold them in halves again from the other direction. [Demo] Then unfold again and fold this new half in towards the middle like we did before. [Demo] When you are done your page should have 16 squares folded into it. Next, we will take the top corners and fold them down. [Demo] Then fold the top quarter of the page down. [Demo] Turn the sheet over and take the top corner and fold them down toward the middle. [Demo] You should have square diamond shape in the middle of the sheet. [Demo] Next fold the bottom corners up towards the middle. [Demo] This will cover up the square down in shape. [Demo] Now, lift up one of the flat we just created and push the corner in and down under that flat. [Demo] We will repeat this on the other side. [Demo] Now, take these flops and slides them underneath so that square diamond shape is shown again. [Demo] Finally, slide your finger under the middle line from both sides and pull out. [Demo] We may need to rework the creases a little to give box more definite shape. [Demo] And there is a bottom of our box. [Demo] Now, I will show you how to make a lid for the box from a second sheet paper. [Demo] We will start the box top pretty much the same we did at the bottom of the box. [Demo] I am going to make these folds in a different sequence but we still going to end up with the sheet that has 16 square fold identically. [Demo] Now, that we have our sheet in 16 square take top corners and fold it down like we did before. [Demo] This time we are going to take the top quarter of the sheet and folded in half. [Demo] Now, fold the side corners in towards the middle. [Demo] We are going to fold the bottom quarter of the page up and start to pull out these flaps. [Demo] This is somewhat delicate work and you need to massage the paper a little bit but just keep following the guidelines that we made and you will get it eventually. [Demo] Next fold these triangular flaps in towards the middle. [Demo] Do this on both sides of course. [Demo] From the middle hold the flops down and out. [Demo] This will be cost part of the sheet to stand up. [Demo] We will take a second here just to make sure that we have good creases. [Demo] And here we have lid to our box. To attach the lid to the box, we will slide the triangle flaps right under this slit here. [Demo] The first few times you try to close box, it might resist you a little, but after the paper gets used to the creasing, it gets easier. [Music Playing]