Origami Safari: 26 Beautiful African Animals Made Out of Paper



Animals are probably the most common thing that people fold out of paper.
Rather than just making posts featuring random origami animals I’m going to try to group them
together into themes. This post will focus on African animals such as elephants, lions, giraffes and more.

There’s a lot of awesome looking origami here so lets begin with some origami rhinos.

We’ll start with this fantastic rhino posing on a blog of wood.



Here’s a fantastic adult and child rhino by João Charrua.

Here’s a different white Rhino design by József Zsebe.

There are several different origami giraffe designs.

This giraffe was partly folded and then unfolded so the spot.

Here’s another fantastic giraffe design by Yasushi Miyashita.

Shuki Kato has a fantastic giraffe design,

József Zsebe designed this cute little origami warthog.

>Nguyễn Nam Sơn designed this incredible lion.

You can’t have a post about African animals without including some origami lions.

Here’s a very different lion design this time by Satoshi Kamiya.

You also, of course, have to have origami elephants in a post about African animals.

Here’s the same elephant but this time it’s folded.

Cheetahs might not be the first animal you think of when you think of Africa.

Here’s a very different but very cute little elephant design from Akiko Yamanashi

The best part of this cheetah is the spots that are painted on the paper.

That it for today’s collection of African animals. If you’re interested in
folding some great origami animals check out the book African Animals In Origami.
It’s a great collection of African animals and none of them are too difficult to fold.

If you liked this origami be sure to visit all these talented artists and let them know what you think!