Origami Bible Stories for Kids Ebook: Folded Paper Figures and Stories Bring the Bible to Life! Everything you need is in this box! Full-color book with easy instructions, plus 64 patterned folding sheets]

Reliving Stories from the Bible

The Bible is a fascinating book to read.

Love, hate, joy, tears, wrath, hope, giants, angels, wild animals, fighting, storms, snakes, wise men, kings, deceit, lies, revenge, redemption, birth, death—everything you need for a great story is together in this one big book.

Turn the pages and more and more stories unfold.

And now this set of origami Bible stories lets you fold them up again!

The Bible has always given artists things to paint, musicians things to compose, and architects things to build. It has inspired beautiful hand-painted books, stained glass, and lots of sculpture. The high drama of the Old Testament, and the lives of Jesus and his followers in the New Testament, have been a source of stories for writers for thousands of years.

So I suppose it was only natural that I was inspired by it too. I love to make things with paper, and all those animals and people cried out to be folded! I made lots and lots of new origami models, and chose the easiest and best looking ones to go into sets that tell some of the best-known Bible stories. You can also switch them around to make different tableaux of your own.

I have arranged the stories in the order they appear in the Bible. But some of the early pieces are the most difficult, so I suggest you start with a few easy ones first—the pieces with the fewest steps. Take your time, look at the diagrams carefully to see how each fold is made and how it will look when you’re done, and fold as precisely as you can. The lines and patterns printed on each piece of paper will help you. And you can use your own paper to practice. Relax, enjoy yourself, and you’ll be fine.

And in no time you’ll be looking at great Bible stories you’ve recreated yourself!

How to Fold the Models

All of these models are easy to fold. The instructions have been drawn with standard symbols, and the origami papers have folding guidelines and numbers printed right on them.

Fold this way

Fold and reopen

Fold around behind

Fold the whole model over

Next is a magnified view

Next is a reduced view

The centers of circles show which points or edges to bring together when folding.

Bracket marks indicate things of the same width, such as when you fold halfway along an edge.

Bases

A common shortcut used when describing how to fold origami is to refer to a jumping off point called a base. Here are the bases used in this kit.

Waterbomb Base

The Waterbomb Base is quite common. Here is an easy way to do it.

1. Color side down, fold and unfold corner to corner. Flip the paper.

2. Fold the paper in half and unfold it again.

3. Collapse the sides away from you along the creases you’ve made.

4. This is the finished Waterbomb Base.

Fish Base

This base looks a bit like a fish without a tail. It has two flaps in the middle that can be used to make fins, legs, and all sorts of things.

1. Start color side down. Fold and unfold to the centerline from the top and bottom corners.

2. Fold the corners in to the centerline.

3. Press down the folds to crease the paper underneath and the Fish Base is finished.

Preliminary Base

This