So, if you’re feeling drained from brainstorming new ideas to engross your little sweeties (or terrors), or frustrated from offering so much TV time (no judgment—these are crazy times!), or if you simply like the idea of adding another fine motor skill, hands-on, multi-sensory activity to their weekly roster, this may be the perfect craft to introduce! Enjoy looking through these 25 simple origami projects for kids.
25 Easy Origami Figures for Kids
- Have a Roaring Time With This T-Rex These prehistoric pals will make your child’s imagination and creativity dino-soar!
- Peep These Cute Birds No mocking birds here—these flying friends are so tweet and easy, they won’t ruffle any feathers!
- Build a Beautiful Butterfly Just like a caterpillar makes a marvelous transformation in the real world, this fun tutorial claims it can be completed in just three minutes!
- Create a Classic Paper Crane This traditional origami craft is shown super-simply for first-timers, even using colorful highlighters to emphasize the different folded creases!
- Design DIY Dogs—It’s a Walk in the Park Once you start crafting these furry friends, you’ll see that anything is paw-sible!
- Put Your Heart Into This Project This how-to video will teach you all about creating a paper heart—without missing a beat!
- School Your Kids With Sofishticated Origami There’s absolutely nothing fishy about this fab design!
- Create Crowns For Your Kingdom—Day or Knight We might be limited in mobility these days, but not necessarily nobility!
- Bring the Woodland Indoors What does the fox say? This sly guy will turn your house into a DIY den!
- Hop Right Over to Your Next Hobby Some bunny in your household is bound to enjoy making plenty of these cute critters!
- Stop to Smell (and Paper-Fold) the Roses Who says you need April showers to make flowers? All you need is this tutorial!
- Have a Toad-ally Entertaining Time Your kids will leap with joy as they create and play with this frog that can actually jump!
- Follow a Crystal Clear Guide Design your own collection of diamonds—this precious (metal) project seriously rocks!
- Spread Your Wings With This Origami Hummingbird Even the smallest child can help with paper-folding the smallest migrating bird!
- Sharpen Your Ninja Star Skills This paper replica might earn you some serious parental points!
- Where There’s a Whale, There’s a Way Even if this seems overwhaleming, the end result will blow you away!
- Put the Petal to the Metal Show your fam how to grow your own flower garden using origami!
- Deliver Snail Mail in Style Since in-person greetings aren’t happening much these days, address this bummer by having your kids create some pull-tab envelope cards to send to loved ones!
- Captivate Your Kids Using Fortune Tellers While trying to avoid viruses, you can still (ironically) have a blast with cootie catchers!
- Make a Spectacle of Your Skills When your future is so bright with awesome quarantine activities, you better pull out your shades!
- Add a Very Good Boy to Your #Quaranteam Children of all ages will (puppy) love this fetching face!
- Take a Step (Fashion) Forward Dress to impress when it comes to a day of arts and crafts!
- Think Outside the Box Not only will kids have a blast learning the process of origami, they’ll get to enjoy opening and closing their package as well!
- Make a Craft—Just Beclaws Crabtivate your kiddos with this project inspired from under the sea!
- Create a Ferry Fun Oardeal You can try blowing these ships across the floor with straws, placing them in water, putting them on display—whatever floats your boat! Check out: 29 kid scavenger hunt ideas12 Zoom games for kids28 free educational apps15 boredom blasting crafts for kids
