Origami Yoda Valentine Tutorial

My oldest is very into the Origami Yoda series of books right now.  It’s made him very interested in the art of origami, and I find little origami chewbaccas and storm troopers all over my house.  For Valentine’s Day this year we decided to have him make little Origami Yoda finger puppets for each of his classmates.  I love to encourage creativity, and in the fourth grade it gets hard to come up with crafty Valentines for a boy.  My son loved the idea, and his classmates loved his origami finger puppets so much that he actually did a class presentation on how to make them. He’s pretty proud of these!  So together we wrote this step by step tutorial so that you can do this easy craft with your kids. Enjoy! And if you like this – you have my permission to pin this or link to this tutorial – but please give us credit!

Start with a piece of green paper sized 6×6 inches:

 

Fold the paper into thirds:

 

Fold a slight angle into each outer third – starting your fold about half way down the length of your paper

 

Then fold where you made those angled folds -about 1/3 the length of the paper

 

Draw on Yoda’s face with a sharpie marker

 

Next take a 6×2 inch piece of brown paper

 

Fold it in thirds around Yoda’s body

 

Then fold each side on an angle to create his robe

 

We used a little tape on the back of the robe to stick it to Yoda

 

And then taped on a glow stick to the fold of one side of his robe for a light saber

 

We taped on a little card to the other side.  How awesome are these little origami finger puppets?  Yo-da best Valentine!

 

We hope you enjoyed this tutorial!  If you liked it please leave a comment for Caleb – he’ll be thrilled to read them!