Every first Sunday after the spring full moon, they celebrate the bright holiday of the Resurrection of Christ - Easter. An attribute of the holiday, of course, is an Easter egg. It symbolizes a new life.
In this article, we will teach you how to do it yourself using the 3D origami Easter egg technique. After reading the entire article to the end, you will understand the principle of work and you can easily come up with your own Easter egg modular scheme and reproduce it.
Modular egg, origami: master class
To complete the work, 273 triangular modules are required. Colors may vary. You can use all modules of the same color or, as in our example, two color shades. If desired, the color scheme can be increased. From one sheet of A4 paper, 32 parts are obtained.
We begin to prepare. To do this, we consider how many sheets we need: 273 parts are divided by 32 pcs. It turns out about 9 sheets.
It is worth considering the fact that in no case, making origami a “modular egg”, you cannot use thin sheets of paper, since the module will turn out to be fragile and may break during the assembly process. If you still only have thin paper at hand, then try to make modules from two layers.
The principle of obtaining blanks for modules
Getting started:
- Fold the A4 sheet in half, cut it, then work with each half of the sheet separately.
- We take one half and also fold in half. Using a clerical knife, cut the fold line.
- Putting the two halves together, we combine the corners again and cut them off in the middle of the bend.
- So we repeat until we get blanks of a sheet measuring 5.5 x 3.5 cm. If everything was done correctly, then from one half of the leaf you will get 16 blanks.
- We do the same with the second half of the sheet.
If you work with both halves at once, then the last cuts may be inaccurate or because of the thickness you simply cannot make them and then collect a beautiful modular origami egg.
For beginners, it is best to cut each bend separately with a knife, then it will be smooth, and the details will be standard. This will help you put together a commendable item.
Creating details for origami "modular egg"
Now you need to add 273 triangles with two pockets from the resulting blanks. We carry out these modules for the origami "Easter Egg" as follows:
- Take a rectangular blank, measuring 5.5 cm x 3.5 cm, fold it in half horizontally so that the sides are 5.5 cm long.
- We bend the resulting part in half vertically and unbend. This is necessary in order to outline the middle of the rectangle.
- Add the edges of the rectangle to the middle, that is, to the fold that we have outlined.
- We turn the resulting product.
- The lower edges obtained in the process of folding are raised up. It should be, in the end, a piece in the form of a paper cap.
- We bend the remaining corners through a large triangular part, as if enveloping it.
- Extend the edges that are raised from the bottom.
- After that, repeat steps 6 and 5 in the reverse order. First, we bend the corners according to the resulting marks, after which we raise the lower edges up.
- We bend the resulting detail in half, corner to corner.
As a result, we get a ready-made module that has two corners and two pockets, about which we wrote at the very beginning.
Module assembly
As you can see, a modular origami egg, the assembly diagram of which was provided above, is not difficult to do. A little difficulty can overtake at the very beginning, but if you get used to it, then this can be easily dealt with.
We start by assembling a circular row. Since the second row holds the modules of the first, it means that we collect two rows at once, and the next ones are already added to the product in 1 row:
- In order not to confuse the number of modules in the rows, put yourself two heaps of 8 pcs. in each, to your right and to your left. It is this number of modules that is needed for one row.
- We take two modules on the right and fold them one to the other, then on the left we take one module and insert the corners into the pockets located in the middle of the first and second modules from the right heap.
- We attach the third module to the second, on the right side of the first row and, inserting into the pockets, we hook it with the second module of the second row.
- We continue by adding the 4th module of the 1st row and the 3rd module of the second.
- We also do this until we reach the 8th module of the first row. It must be connected in a circle with the first eighth module of the second row.
These first two rows are very difficult to assemble, since it is necessary to hold all the parts tightly together so that they do not fall apart. In them we spent 16 white modules.
The third row is much more convenient to do, compared with the first two, but still it is worth holding firmly with your hand the entire structure to avoid breakage. We also count 8 modules and insert them all into the pockets of the second row in the same way. On this, the third row of the origami "modular egg" design ended.
The increase in modules in the design
In the fourth row, change the color, as desired. It will be necessary to increase the number of modules to 12 pieces. Increase as follows:
- It is necessary to insert the module into the pocket of the previous row with only one corner, and leave the second free, so do it to the middle of the structure.
- In the middle of the row we insert into both pockets and continue to the end - the last two corners again into two pockets. Thus, we get a series of 12 modules.
The total number of modules spent is 36.
- The fifth row - again white, 12 pieces. We do it in the same way - each corner of the module is in its own pocket.
- The sixth row is increased to 18, the assembly takes place with white corners.
- The seventh row also has 18 white modules.
- Eighth row - 18 pink details.
- The ninth row is increased to 27 white.
- The tenth and eleventh row - also 27 pieces each.
The total number of modules was 183 pcs.
Decrease in modules in a design
On row 12, we begin to reduce the number of modules. You can use the method of skipping corners, or insert 2 corners into one pocket, try any of them and understand which one will work best for you.
In the event that you use paper that is not thick enough, the “one-pocket several corners” method will not work, since the entire origami “modular egg” design may burst.
- So, in this row should be 18 pink modules.
- Next, the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth rows are made of 18 white parts.
- The sixteenth row is 12 pink modules.
- The seventeenth and eighteenth row are 12 white. They will be the final in our design of a modular Easter egg.