Puppies take alot of love and time. With a new puppy comes feeding, walking, cleaning, and grooming. If you are not ready for the responsibility of a real puppy, perhaps you could begin with a paper puppy. The Sleepy Puppy origami model is cute, stands up, and looks like it needs a nap. All puppies are cutest when they are napping.
The eyes of the sleepy puppy are the hilite of the model, with little creases to mark the lower eyelids. The contrast of the paper, and the shadow of the last fold, create the illusion of heavy eyes. The tail will let the puppy stand up, but he is just too tired to beg or play right now.
The sleepy puppy uses two interesting folds, the inside reverse fold, and the outside reverse fold. Both folds involve creasing the paper in the proper places, and then reversing those creases to either fold inside or outside of the paper. You will need to open up the model a little to accomplish this, reverse the creases, and then close the model to complete the reverse fold.
 Use a piece of paper with color or print on one side, and blank on the other. Lay the color side up, and create a diagonal mountain crease in the paper. Unfold, then mountain fold diagonally the other direction, crease well.
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 Valley fold the corner of the top layer a third of the way past the edge of the mountain fold.
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 Valley fold the corner of this top layer the other direction, just past the valley fold you made in the last step.
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 Valley fold the entire model in half, bisecting the last three fold you made.
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 Valley fold nearly the entire right half of the top layer to the left. The crease will run vertically just to the right of the tip of the triangle.
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 Do the same fold on the opposite side of the paper. Either mountain fold, or flip the paper over and valley fold. Crease well and return to the original orientation.
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 Now inside reverse fold the tail of the puppy. The tail is the inverted part of the paper, in the center, on the left side of the model.
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 Mark the creases for the inside reverse fold. Open the right side, and crease a vertical valley just to the left of the tip of the triangle on the top layer, and mountain crease the lower level at the same place.
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 Open the model from the right, and push the tip of the flap over to the right.
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 Invert the lower crease, creating a valley fold, laying the left flap to the right side.
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 Invert the upper crease, creating a mountain fold that allows the model to flatten out.
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 Flatten the model, so that the tail completes the line on the bottom, but is interupted at the top, marking the head.
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 Outside reverse fold the paws and nose, and then mountain fold the elbows to lock the model.
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 The outside reverse fold begins by creasing the paper where you would like the fold. Then open the paper slightly, push down on the center of the crease, and lift the end of the fold. It will valley fold along the crease.
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 Close the fold, and the tip of the fold will wrap around the paper. Do the same for the paws, and then mountain fold the elbows.
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 Valley fold the tail, on the right side of the model, crease well, and unfold half way. This will allow the puppy to stay standing, even though he is so sleepy.
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 Mark the eyes by creating little valley folds in the top sheet of paper on the face. The creases should not be straight, rather little semi-circles.
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Single Sheet Book Model
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