Fold a Heart from a New Dollar Bill.
Workshops are available to teach juggling, balance, ball spinning, stilt walking, and (of course) Origami. These skills are much more easily learned with a "hands on" instructor.
Unfolded the bill will look like this.
All Origami requires very accurate, creased folds. You might want to print and use the above image to learn the figure. Fold with the lines out so that you can see them. The portrait on a dollar bill would be face down on the table.
- If you get stuck on the figure - sleep on it and try again tommorrow.
- Fold the bill in half vertically, unfold. Fold the bill in half horizontally, unfold.
- Fold the top right of the bill down to the vertical centerline. The red arrow on the edge will lie on the red arrow in the center of the bill.
- Do not fold the red lines past the horizontal line. See the photo below - you are forming half of the tip of the heart.
- Form the other three red lines (45° off vert.) in the same way, unfold all red folds.
- (To learn the figure you may wish to skip the next step - the heart will not reverse, but will be easier to make.)
- The purple lines (22.5° off vert.) result from folding the red lines to the vertical center (like the red were formed), unfold. For best results, fold these from the opposite side (looking at the portrait).
- Fold the left end of the bill to the point (<) of the red folds. This yields the blue line - repeat for the right. These stay folded.
- Refold (mountain fold) the horizontal line from the folded ends of the bill to the red lines.
- Valley fold the rest of the horizontal line. (see picture right - the red lines form a pair of points)
- If you look at the point of the heart, you are looking into a "puppet's mouth".
- Round the heart by folding the green lines (45°).
- Fold and unfold these lines, then reverse fold the extra material into the "ears".
- Looking at the front or the back you should not see the folded portions.
- The outer edge of the "ears" will look like two layers - the inner like four.
- You can lock the four layers together by reverse folding two layers, inserting the other two into the first two layers.
- To reverse the figure hold the heart by the "ears", pull out and down.
- The first few times you may need to press down on the horizontal line in the bill.