How to fold an origami flower | Video

First cut out the black square. Then, following the color-coded lines above (dashed = fold toward you; solid = fold away from you), fold the sheet in half along both diagonals.

Turn the paper over and fold it in half again, down both center lines.

Let those creases pull the paper’s four corners together, making a smaller, folded square composed of four “flaps.” Then, repeat the following steps on each of those four flaps.

Open the flap’s edge and flatten it into a narrow triangle so the edge meets the center. Repeat for the other three flaps.

Take the horizontal flap this creates and make a “petal fold”—pull it toward the farther point and flatten it to make the top edges meet in the center. Take the triangular flap that creates and flip it over.

Fold your new outer edges away, toward the center of the opposite side, then fold the top as far as you can toward the bottom point of the “stem.”

Reopen halfway and voilà: an origami flower! Looks like a lily, don’t you think?