So here’s how you fold Origami Yoda so you can have your own Jedi wisdom in school. What you do is you get a piece of paper and this is just a piece of paper cut into four pieces, this is one of the four pieces. And it’s a rectangle so you have to make sure you’re holding it the right way. So all you have got to do is remember Yoda is short so keep your paper short.
If you use your paper tall, you’re going to end with a green Darth Vader, okay. Nobody wants a green Darth Vader; keep your paper short like this. Now you’re going to take one side and you’re going to fold it about half way over like this and give it good a crease down the side. Creases are very important in origami. So there you go, you fold it at half way over, now you’re going to fold this other side over top of it like this. Okay, and give that a good crease down the side.
Now you’ll notice everything isn’t perfect here, that’s okay, it will all work out. Now, what we’ve got is a rectangle and we need a Yoda. Well, the thing, the only thing that you need to absolutely have a Yoda is big green ears. Okay. Anything else is an extra detail. Big green ears though is what you got to have, without big green ears you don’t have a Yoda.
So here’s how you make your big green ears, there’s a loose corner on top here, you’re going to pull that over to one side and then squash it down flat. Now this is a little tricky the first time you try it. Okay. I’ve folded over 2,000 Yodas now, so it’s easy for me. If you’re having trouble with, just take a minute and try to figure it out.
I just took one corner; I folded it over to the side and squashed it down flat. So I have a triangle sticking out to the side of the rectangle and once you’ve done one of those, the second one is pretty easy, except that the corner is kind of buried here. So you got to carefully pull that out and squash it down on the other side. My ears are very even but that’s okay, it will work out.
Now, we’re only one fold away from having our Origami Yoda, this is the five-fold emergency Yoda, for emergency situations, when you absolutely got to have Origami Yoda’s wisdom right away. You just grab a piece of paper, you do these five folds. This is the fifth and final fold. You’re going to take the top and fold it down here. It’s almost like folding it in half but we’re not going to go all the way to the bottom, we’re going to stop right here.
It’s going to go right through the ears like this. Just like that. Now guys I’ll tell you a real jet eye, I mean, real origami masters don’t draw the faces on their origami but I’m not an origami master, I’m just a guy that likes Star Wars and folding paper and having fun, so I draw the faces on my Yoda’s, so I’m just going to get a pen here, draw a couple eyes and a mouth and ready to give Jet Eye wisdom — I’ll just put him on my finger just like Dwight does in the book, I put him on my finger and now I can walk around and say, “May the force be with you always.”