How to make an origami dog
1. Take a square of paper, any size you like – a piece of your child’s art is especially good to use as your dog will be unique
2. Follow this guide to fold it (or this one which is animated)
3. Add some googly eyes using craft glue and a nose using a felt pen
4. Make your dog happy by adding a smile.
5. Think of a name for your pet while the glue dries, then he’s ready to play
We made these dogs at creche today with sixteen 2- and 3-year-olds. They loved them! We counted out the eyes and they had a go with the pen adding the nose and mouth. There was a lot of woofing too!
The folding was a bit too tricky for the toddlers, but my two girls (4 and 8 ) found the instructions easy to follow. Using the children’s own art work to make the origami dog and letting them add the face still gives the younger children plenty of things they can manage all by themselves. I’m thinking we could use an egg box to make the dog a body, with this face at one end and a tail at the other to create a junk model dog for even more play – what do you think?
A big thanks to my colleague Lesley for the idea and to the lovely toddlers for sharing their origami dog creations.
happily shared with craft schooling Sunday and Saturday’s artist and the resource centre teach mama and for the kids Friday and it’s playtime upcycled awesome and we play
Very cute! Have bookmarked the origami instructions 🙂
Hope you have fun making them Leah
Oh my! coincidence! We did origami dog face and glued it to the tissue box(for the body). We made the craft to go along with the book – Bark, George by Julies Feiffer. The story is about a dog who has swallowed some animals and makes there sound. The vet pulls out the animals from the dog. We glued the origami dog face to tissue box. so that we could play by pulling out the animals.
Esther , that sounds like real fun!
Aww so cute!! Thanks for sharing the link to instructions:)
Oh these are lovely really cute will have to make some of these with Baba xx
Super cute. I was thinking my three year old wouldn’t be able to do this but since you tried it, maybe I will too. He does love doggies.
Hi Jackie – I think you could give it a go, he might even manage the folding with some help as it’s fairly straight forward 🙂
I love these! 🙂 Can’t wait to get making some with my little pup! Thanks for sharing the instructions.
Brilliant activity for wet playtimes! Thank you Kathy!
You’re right Julia – we always have a stack of pictures ready and waiting to be transformed. Great rainy day activity.
Sooo cute!!
Here is my blog post, the origami dog play I was talking about
https://creativitymypassion.blogspot.com/2011/05/bark-george-origami-dog-play.html
Thanks for sharing this Esther – I love the animals in the tummy!