The larger your piece of paper is, the larger your paper heart will be. The smaller your piece of paper, the smaller the heart. If you don’t have a square piece of paper, cut a piece of printer paper (or any other paper you have on hand) into a square using scissors.
Now, there should be 4 triangles in the square or 2 perpendicular crease marks running through the center of the square.
It may take 2 hands to do this—1 holding the middle of the paper while the other folds. Think of the right and left points as each half of the heart. Folding up the right point makes the right half, while folding the left points creates the left half.
If you’d like your heart to be more triangular, keep the points out. That’s it—you’ve made your very own paper heart! Turn it over and see how it looks.
If you don’t have a piece of square paper, no worries! Simply use scissors to cut a different-sized piece of paper into a square.
To flatten the paper, fold it in half horizontally, so the top and bottom edges are going away from you. The folded crease should be facing you.
Folding something toward you is called valley-folding, while folding something away from you is called mountain folding.
There should be 2 perpendicular creases intersecting in the square’s center.
If you’ve done your folds correctly, the square will fold in on itself when you press it together. If it doesn’t, no worries! Press down on the center of the square with your finger to push everything in place.
