Learning how to make origami weapons can be a great hobby and a great skill to have. You can use this ability to make a gift for someone, impress your friends at parties, or even start your own collection of decorative fiber art. There are a variety of weapons you can make out of paper, and they can range from basic to complex depending on how much additional materials you’re using other than paper.

However, you can still make some cool origami weapons out of just paper, some good examples being a knife, shuriken, or even a gun with a reloading mechanism. I’ll give you a quick tutorial on how to make a knife in this article, but you can get a lot more tips on how to make origami weapons on my blog, link at the bottom of this article.

This weapon is moderately easy to make and you will only need a square sheet of paper.

Step 1: Take the square piece of paper and fold it diagonally so that it looks like a triangle. Fold the opposite side over to create a smaller triangle. Then, unfold the paper so that it is a square again. These folds will help form the guide lines for the rest of the steps.

Step 2: Turn the sheet of paper over so that one corner is facing you. Fold the sides in to align with the middle guide line. It should now look like a kite.

Step 3: Fold the two center corners back. Make sure they line up near the outside of the paper, but don’t cross each other.

Step 4: Flip the paper over. Fold the sides of the paper up to create two small triangles.

Step 5 – Take one of the sides and fold it towards the center. Then, fold the bottom of the paper in toward the center as well, leaving a bit of space between it and the other side.

Step 6: Fold the other side to the center but leave some space in the middle.

Step 7: Fold the paper in half. Now it will look like a knife.

You can leave the knife as it is, or you can paint it to decorate it. Please remember these are not to be used as actual knives and are for display purposes only.