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In this video you're going to learn how to make your own cute origami dog
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They're really easy and it's a great craft activity for adults and kids alike
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So let's get started. I'm Christine of Christine's Crafts and this channel is
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dedicated to crafting on a budget. All you're going to need is a square of
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paper. It can be any size but the one I'm making is 6 inches by 6 inches and all
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you're going to do to start with is fold it in half corner to corner just like
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I'm doing here. Now you'll see that when I'm doing it on this film I don't always
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get the folds in exactly the right place because I can't get my head above the
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paper. So my top tip here would be get your head directly above the paper. So
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you can see that I've now turned it and folded it again so I've now got that
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cross on the page. So then take one corner and fold it in to the centre. You
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can see exactly where the centre is and just repeat that all the way around your
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square. So you're now making a smaller square. Just get all four done and then
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we'll start to form some of the detail. So take one of your points and open it
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up and then fold the point to that crease that you can see that you just
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made when you folded the whole corner in and make a good crease and then close it
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back up. On the opposite point you're going to fold it back so that it sticks
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out. Now how far you stick it out is up to you. This is forming the tail of your
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dog so the further it sticks out the longer its tail and then we're going to
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fold it closed just like that. Now if you have any difficulties closing it just
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open it back up put your fingernail in there and make sure that crease is nice
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and firm and there you go. You can see we're starting to form a dog we've got a
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little tail. So the next step that we're going to take is to open up your dog and
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pull the top flap down just the top one and then fold the whole lot up from one
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corner there to the other corner there and make a nice crease along there
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It's taking a little bit of time and then fold back along that fold you've
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already got and we can see we're starting to form the dog's head. Turn the
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whole thing over and repeat so pull the point out the bottom and then fold from
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the top corner to the bottom corner and this time it should be lining up with
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what you did last time so it's a little easier to know you're doing it right and
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fold back down. So now you'll see that we have got a dog but he hasn't really got
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a nose yet so we're just going to finish off the bottom of his face. So just open
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it up and pull that inside bit down. Now what you might find here is it's a
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little bit tricky and you sometimes end up with a little rounded bit there
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rather than a nice crisp crease. Does it matter? Not to me it's the dog's nose. So
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now you've effectively got a dog but I do recommend just taking a marker pen or a
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felt tip and drawing a little eye and just colouring his nose in. Just give him a
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little bit of character a little bit of personality and make sure you do both
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sides after all he is a 3d origami dog. And then that's it you're ready to go
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and make yourself as many dogs as you like as any size you like so make some
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big ones make some little ones. If you enjoyed making this dog then consider
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doing some more origami and on the screen now you're going to see a link to a playlist where you can see all my other origami tutorials so please enjoy
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them subscribe to my channel and like this video and please let me know in the
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comments below how you get on making your origami dogs
