How to Fold This Origami Jack O’ Lantern Modular

I don’t usually create decorations for Halloween, even though there are some amazing models out there that deserve a try.

This year I decided to give another try to this model I saved to my Instagram profile a long long time ago.

There are instructions on how to fold this origami jack o’ lantern modular, but last time I did not got the proportions right.

This time, the first I folded still had the body bigger than the model folded by the author, so for the video, I decided to make the body smaller and it looks so much better.

Another huge difference, is the fact that mine will not hold it’s own weight.

I wonder if it is because of the paper, maybe it should be cardboard? Or maybe the lip has a different paper size that the one I use?

I also used way more glue and a lot of tape….and I don’t think that @craft_team_bigheads used any tape for this model.

How to Fold This Origami Jack O’ Lantern Modular

First I want to mention again, that there are photo instructions on his profile. I will give a link to each and every one.

I decided to make video instructions, because I really like this model and I don’t want to forget how I folded it.

You will also see that I am quite clumsy when it comes to folding and recording in the same time, but I think it’s an ok quality to understand what I am doing there.

You will also see that I recorded the video in portrait mode. This was intentional, as I thought I will upload them on Pinterest. But the size it’s way to big for Pinterest, so YouTube it is.

Preparations:

Head: 7 pieces of square paper - 10 x 10 cm
Body: 1 piece of square paper - 15 x 15 cm
Hands: 2 pieces of square paper - 10 x 10 cm
Eyes: 2 pieces of square paper - 2.5 x 2.5 cm
Little top: 1 piece of square paper - 2.5 x 2.5 cm
Glue
Tape

Folding the Hands of the Origami Jack O’ Lantern Modular.

For the hands we need 2 pieces of square paper.

I used 10 x 10 cm of Heyda origami paper.

Here is the link for the photo tutorial.

Folding the Head of the Origami Jack O’ Lantern.

For the head we need 7 pieces of square paper.

We need 6 for the main part of the head, and one for the lip.

I used 10 x 10 cm of Heyda origami paper.

Here is the link for the photo tutorial.

And here is the link for the lip

I am sorry for the light on the lip video. I was recording in front of the window with the drapes closed and then I did open one of the drapes when I realized it got quite dark on the video.

Here is the link for the eyes as well. (being a short I can not embed it as the others)

For the eyes I used 2 pieces of square paper of 2.5 x 2.5 cm.