How to make origami boxes

 

 

 

There are various size of origami boxes that you can make from a square paper. If you want, you can have a lid for the box you make. The origami box is very simple to make but the good part is you can actually make use of it.

 

If we define the width and height of a sqaure to be 1 (with no unit), then total area of the original paper to be 1. Then I can also define three variables A_base, A_tot, and V_tot where A_base to be the ratio of base area to the area of an original square paper, A_total ti be the total surface area of the box, and V_tot to be the total volume of the box. These variables will be very useful since we can compare these variables from different boxes.

 

 

 

Before working on these models, you need to know what valley-fold and mountain-fold are and then you should practice these folds with some simple origami models here.

 

 

Traditional Origami Box
origami box
Level

Beginner
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This origami box is a traditional origami box and it is based on "cushion base". It is very easy to make this box and you can put anything into it.
 

Traditional Oblong Origami Box
traditional oblong origami box
Level

Beginner
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This traditional oblong origami box is similar to easy origami house in the beginning stage of folding sequence. One special folding technique you need to apply is a squah-fold.
 
 

 

Large Square Origami Box

large square origami box

 
Level

Beginner
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The large square origami box is easy to fold. The height of this box is exactly half of square width. So it is flatter than a cubic box. A maximum volume for a square box can be made when square width is 2/3 where the volume is 2/27 = 0.074. Since the square width for this box is 1/2 and the volume is 0.0625, it generates a reasonable volume size.
 

Large Square Origami Box Cover
origami box
Level

Beginner
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This cover is for the large square origami paper box.

 

You can use the same size of paper for this cover.
 
 

 

Closed Origami Box

 

 
closed origami box
Level

Beginner
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This origami box is very unique. If you need a box with no opening, this is the one for you.
 

Closed Thin Rectangular Origami Box
origami box
Level

Beginner
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You can fold a rectangular shaped thin closed box here.
 

Closed Tall

Origami Box

 
closed tall origami box
Level

Beginner
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This origami box is very unique. It is a tall origami box without an opening on the top.
 

 

Rectangular Origami Box
rectangular origami box
Level

Beginner
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You can fold a rectangular shaped open box here. The ratio between the width and the length of the rectangle is 1:2. This means that the area can be made out of two squares.
 

Rectangular Origami Box II
rectangular origami box
Level

Beginner
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The rectangular shaped open box is presented here. The ratio between the width and the length of the rectangle is 1:2. One special folding technique involved with this model is 90 degrees mountain-fold.
 

Flat Rectangular Origami Box
rectangular origami box
Level

Beginner
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The rectangular shaped open box is presented here. The ratio among the width, the length, and the height of the rectangle is 2:4:1 . One special folding technique involved with this model is 90 degrees mountain-fold.
 

 

Flat Square

Origami Box
flat open-square origami box
Level

Beginner
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This flat square origami box is a open model. A special folding technique that you need to apply for this model is a petal-fold. You need to apply this petal-fold to inside of the box not outside.
 
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Origami Cube Boxes

 

 

Traditional Origami Cube

 

6 pieces of paper

traditional origami cube
Level

Beginner
Copyright Traditional

 
This traditional origami cube can be made by putting six modules together. Here I used six typical origami paper with different color.
 

Origami Cube

 

 

2 pieces of paper

origami cube
Level

Beginner
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You will need two pieces of square paper to make this origami cube. There is no special folding technique involved in this model.
 

Simple Origami Cube

 

 

single paper

simple origami cube
Level

Beginner
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You will only need a single square paper to make this simple origami cube.
 

 

Origami Open Cube

 

 

single paper

origami open cube
Level

Beginner
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This origami open cube is a cube without the top so that you can put something in it.
 

Origami Open Cube II

 

 

single paper

origami open cube II
Level

Beginner
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This origami open cube II is a variation of origami open cube.
 

Lid for Origami Open Cube

 

 

lid for origami open cube
Level

Beginner
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This box lid for origami open cube is being used to cover the top of open cube.
 

 

Closed Origami Cube

 

 

origami closed cube
Level

Beginner
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You can make this closed origami cube with a various size by varying Δ which is shown in the instruction.
 
   

 

 

 

 

Origami Star Boxes

 

 

Classic Origami Star Box

classic origami star box

 
Level

Beginner
Copyright Traditional

 
This is the classical four-pointed star box.
 

Five-pointed

Origami Star Box
five-pointed cute origami star box
Level

Intermediate
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The origami star box is a five-pointed star version of classical origami star box.
 
 

 

Cute Origami Star Box
four-pointed cute origami star box
Level

Beginner
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The origami star box is similar to the classic star box but with smaller base and taller in height
 

Five-pointed

Cute Origami Star Box
five-pointed cute origami star box
Level

Intermediate
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The origami star box is a five-pointed star version of cute origami star box.
 
 

 

Lovely Origami Star Box
four-pointed lovely origami star box
Level

Intermediate
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This origami star box is a little more difficult to fold compared to other star boxes.

 
 

Five-pointed

Lovely Origami Star Box
five-pointed lovely origami star box
Level

Intermediate
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This origami star box is a little more difficult to fold compared to other star boxes.

 
 
 

 

 

 

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