
8 Petal Origami Flower
Learn how to fold a beautiful origami flower with eight petals and a stem from a single sheet of square paper. This intermediate traditional origami flower is perfect to make a whole bouquet of paper flowers.
This pretty origami flower is quite unique, having 8 petals and being a moderately easy origami model. Please use a large size of origami paper, such as 15 x 15 cm (6×6 inches) or even larger. Using thinner paper is also recommended.
Having a little stem at the back, you can use this to stand it up as well. When made with red paper this flower makes a perfect Christmas Poinsettia Flower.

We have another similar flower for you to fold, if you struggle with this one, it may be a good idea to try that one first. Click here to view the Origami Blossom Flower tutorial.

8 Petal Origami Flower Instructions
Scroll down to follow the photo tutorial for the 8 Petal Origami Flower.
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Step 1: This is the back of our origami paper which is often white, you will not see this colour on your finished flower.
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Step 2: This is the front of our origami paper, your flower will end up this colour all over.
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Step 3: Fold the paper in half, from left to right. Then rotate the paper and repeat.
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Step 4: Flip the paper over to the other side. This time fold the two diagonals.
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Step 5: Push your finger into the middle point. This will enable you to bring the two left and right edges inwards and collapse the paper downwards into a triangle shape.
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Step 6: Flatten the paper.
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Step 7: This is an origami water bomb base.
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Step 8: Fold the front-most left and right flaps diagonally downed inward to align with the central vertical crease.
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Step 9: Next, fold the two lower flaps upward, aligning with the bottom edge of the triangle.
I love origami! Even though this is the first origami flower after like an whole year.I kinda messed up the step when i made the petals but it turned out really good. Tomorrow ill give this to my teacher becuz it is the last day of school and i am not going to see her at school, but i can see her in the hollways and that would make me happy.
this is the worst – tutorial ever. just skipped through step #17, and through a lot of folds without any explanation or tutorial. the single sentence instructions are not helpful either if you don’t even show any arrows so we know how you even did anything. i spent time n effort trying to learn this and it sucks my time n effort was wasted bc of terrible instructions. really killed my mood.
Sorry to hear you had trouble following, a video or a diagram may be a better option for you. If I understood correctly, around step 17 is the problem? I would like to make it as clear as possible, so any feedback on how it can be improved would be helpful.
how do the edges change magically from step 24 to 25?
This is how the paper looks when pressing it down. Press down until it reverses the middle into a cone. Hope that helps 🙂