More Mormon Origami

By Todd Huisken

Make more than President Uchtdorf’s airplanes out of the sacrament programs; now, your kids can fold the gold plates, a pioneer dress, or the Salt Lake Tabernacle! As you develop the unique skill of creating these simple-to-intermediate origami designs, you will find opportunities to use them with all ages for lessons, activities, crafting, and everyday fun!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cedar Fort Publishing & Media
• Release date: Feb 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9781462109814

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ORIGAMI

TERMINOLOGY, SYMBOLS & FOLDS

FOLDS

VALLEY FOLDS are represented by a dashed line: MOUNTAIN FOLDS by a dot-dash line. PRECREASES are shown with a thin line that does not touch the sides: all FOLDED or RAW EDGES are shown with a thick line.

A RABBIT-EAR is a procedure where four folds are made at once, meeting at a vertex. Generally you will precrease all three of them, and flatten the fourth into place.

A PLEAT creates two creases, one mountain & one valley. Usually the mountain is precreased & the valley is flattened into place.

INSIDE REVERSE FOLDS change the direction of the spine of a flap, adding two creases along the way.

SQUASH FOLDS take the spine of a flap, open it up & flatten it. Usually the valley crease is precreased.

A SWIVEL fold takes an area of paper & pivots it around a vertex. Swivel folds fall into the same group of operations as squash & reverse folds.

A PETAL fold is like doing two squash folds at once. This is difficult, so try to precrease as much of it as possible first.

BOOK OF MORMON

DESIGNS

GREAT

& Spacious Building

skill level: 2

QUIZ YOURSELF:

In Lehi’s dream of the tree of life, where was the great & spacious building located?

1 Nephi 8:26

ANSWER:

On the other side of the river of water, . . . and it stood as it were in the air, high above the earth.

1. Start with a square piece of paper. Fold in half & unfold.

2. Turn over. Fold top down to middle & unfold.

3. Fold bottom up to crease from step 2 & unfold.

4. Pleat top half down over bottom half.

5. Fold & unfold corners where shown.

6. Open the paper slightly & push the corners inside (inside fold).

QUIZ YOURSELF:

According to Nephi, what did the great & spacious building symbolize?

1 Nephi 11:36

ANSWER:

The pride of the world.

7. Fold left & right sides toward middle.

8. Fold sides in half & unfold.

9. Fold top down.

10. Fold top layer up.