How to make origami Valentine's Day models

If you come here for making an wonderful origami gift for the coming Valentine's Day, then you come to the right place. There are many origami Valentines projects you can start with such as rose, card, letter, heart, boat, and love seat.

The recommended Valentines origami models are a rose bouquet with a letter enclosed in heart envelope. You can also add a 3D open heart with chocolate. All you need is origami paper and your effort to make some origami models.

Rose Bouquet for Origami Valentines

origami Valentines rose bouquet

You can make this rose bouquet by making 12 single standard roses for Valentine's Day

origami bouquet

You can make this rose bouquet by making (1) QT rose, (2) 11 standard roses, (3) calyx, (4) two leaves, and (5) stem for your Valentine's Day

Card for Valentine's Day

Card

You can make a Valentine's card using a plain paper and an origami heart selected from various origami heart models for your Valentine's Day.

Heart Envelope

Level	Beginner
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This heart envelope has a heart symbol on the back of an envelope. It is not difficult to fold this envelope. One special folding technique that you need to know for this model is swivel-fold.

Large Heart

Envelope

Level	Beginner
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This large heart envelope has a large heart symbol on the back of an envelope. The special folding techniques involved with this model are both squash-fold and inside reverse-fold.

Origami Boat & Airplane for origami Valentines

Origami Gondola Boat

Level	Intermediate
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The origami Gondola boat is consist of (1) boat, (2) four chair, and (3) stand. The boat itself is derived from a long canoe. It will take 16 steps to make a boat stand while 31 steps for Gondola chair. Since you have to go through 21 steps for this instruction, the total steps for making three models will be 68.

Heart Paper Airplane

Level	Beginner
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This heart paper airplane actually flies. It has the heart symbol at the top of this plane. In this instruction, I make use a square paper. But you can use any rectangular paper such letter or A4 size.

Heart Origami Boat

Level	Intermediate
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This heart origami boat starts from 4x4 matrix base. The special folding techniques that you need to learn for this model are squash-fold, inside reverse-fold, open sink-fold, closed-open sink-fold, and open-closed sink-fold.

Origami Heart

Simple Heart

Level	Beginner
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Simple origami heart starts from a half-square paper. One special folding technique that you will learn from this model is petal-fold.

3D Origami Heart

Level	Intermediate
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The instruction for folding 3D heart is given here.

You can put a chocolate inside of this heart for your Valentine's Day.

3D Open Origami Heart

Level	Intermediate
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The instruction for folding 3D open heart is given here.

Since you have an opening on the top, you can put something in this heart and take it out easily without destroying the origami heart.

You can use this heart as a chocolate box for your Valentine's Day.

Origami Heart with Arrow

Level	Intermediate
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The heart with an arrow is not advised to try for origami novice. Special folding techniques involved with this model are inside-reverse fold, pleat-fold, and squash-fold.

Four Heart

Origami Box

Level	Beginner
Copyright	Hyo Ahn

This four-heart origami box starts with a 4x4 matrix base. One special folding technique involved with this model is inside reverse-fold.

Origami Heart over the Moon

Level	Intermediate
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The heart over the moon is not advised to try for origami novice. Special folding techniques involved with this model are Z-fold, swivel-fold, and rabbit ear-fold.

Double-Bar Envelope

Level	Beginner
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This envelope has a double-bar on the back of the envelope. A special folding technique that you will learn from this model is reverse swivel-fold. Here I am using a A4 paper but you could use a letter sized paper instead.

Butterfly Envelope

Level	Beginner
Copyright	Hyo Ahn

This envelope has a butterfly shape on the back of the envelope. A special folding technique that you will learn from this model is inside reverse-fold. Here I am using a A4 paper but you could use a letter sized paper instead.

Diamond Envelope

Level	Beginner / Intermediate
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This diamond envelope starts from 8x8 matrix base. One difficulty you need to go through for this model is to apply a crease pattern (CP) shown at the step #16.

Rose Letter

Level	Beginner
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This rose letter starts from 8x8 matrix base. You need to be careful when you flatten the model by pressing four flaps.

Flower Letter

Level	Beginner
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This flower letter starts from 4x4 matrix base. There is no special folding technique involved with this model.

Octagon Letter

Level	Beginner
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This octagon letter starts from applying four sets of kite-fold.

You will need a single origami paper to fold this origami candy box.

Origami Loveseat for Origami Valentines

Origami loveseat

Level	Beginner
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You will apply both horizontal and vertical gate-folds initially. Then you need to apply a chair-fold. It will take 16 steps to complete this origami loveseat.

Trapezoid Origami Loveseat

Level	Beginner
Copyright	Hyo Ahn

Initially both horizontal and vertical gate-folds will be applied. Modified chair-fold will also be applied. It will take 23 steps to complete the trapezoid origami loveseat.