I’ve always been intrigued with origami, and have even dabbled a bit. I’ve never been able to make anything more intricate that a star or box, but I absolutely loved that I could make something three dimensional from a flat piece of paper. In the midst of Christmas decorating I found a box of my old origami paper and it sparked my interest again. I searched for a panda pattern and found several different ones that I loved. Of course, I wanted to share them with you!

For the more visual learners, you can follow along with these two videos (1, 2). Unfortunately embedding is disabled for these videos so you’ll have to visit YouTube to see them. However, it’s well worth it; the end result is amazingly cute!

I’m more of an instruction reader and find it easier to follow along to written instructions, so the rest are all written instructions in .pdf format. I’ve linked to all the original sites below, but uploaded all the instructions for these patterns to the Perfect Pandas website so they’ll always be available here. Please realize that these lovely patterns are someone else’s hard work, and I take absolutely no credit in their creation.

For those of you (which includes me, too!) who find it easier to cut and paste and glue, the next post will cover very cute printable panda designs that you can just cut out and glue or staple together.

Now let’s get to folding!

If you’d like to start out with something simpler, this cute little panda face project is perfect. Download the instructions here.

More instructions and ideas after the cut!

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