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Origami Box

To use as a “Treasure Box”

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Use a piece of 8.5” square paper with “My Treasure Box” printed in the middle.

(This piece has been pre-creased to make the project easier.)

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(We will go through the complete process for making the box as if it had not been pre-creased.)

To find the center:

Fold the paper in half from

bottom to top.

Unfold.

Then fold the paper in half from side to side. Unfold.

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Fold the four corners in to meet in the center. Crease well.

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With the corners still folded in, fold the sides in to meet in the middle and crease.

Then unfold the sides and fold the top and bottom in to meet in the middle and crease.

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Unfold top and bottom. Your paper should look like this:

Now fold out the left and right corners from the middle so your paper looks like this:

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Now fold the top and bottom to the center and crease.

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This part is a little tricky: Make

diagonal folds,

crease, and then unfold in the four places shown.

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Now turn the paper so you can pull back the sides while you are folding the end up along the

diagonal creases as shown.

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Repeat on the other end.

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Now fold both ends down into the box and crease well.

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When you have folded both ends in, it should look like this:

You have completed the bottom of your Treasure Box!

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To make a top (lid) for the box, follow the exact same instructions, except for Slide #5, where you will need to fold in the sides and then the top and bottom so that they don’t quite meet in the middle, as shown here.

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If you do that, the lid should fit neatly over the bottom of the treasure box.

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Decorate your box and place some Scripture treasures inside.

Each day you can take a treasure (Scripture) out of your box and read it. You can also write down other verses you want to remember and place them in your treasure box.