Origami Truck: Step by Step Tutorial * Moms and Crafters

Enjoy this origami truck tutorial and then download the free printable instructions! When you’re done, learn how to make a fast paper airplane too! This post contains affiliate links.

We love origami and one of our favorite themes is transportation!

These include some of the more beginner level origami tutorials, like those paper airplanes we made as kids, paper boats, and of course, this adorable origami truck.

This beginner level tutorial even comes with free printable illustrated visual instructions so that you can do them at a workshop with an easy reference, or keep them handy for later.

I added a fun window to mine, but you can also just leave it as is.

Use this as a party activity, to make decorations such as garlands for a truck-themed party, or just make it for fun.

Take it up a notch with those markers! Write the name of an imaginary company on the side, or just have fun decorating it.

Practice makes progress, and this is not a tutorial that needs to come out perfect to look like what it is. You can see that even mine isn’t perfect – I just focused on having fun making it!

What you’ll need

Origami Paper (or trim copy paper to square)
I recommend using a bone folder
Markers

How to Fold an Origami Truck

1. Start with a square sheet of paper. Fold it in half…

… and unfold to form a horizontal line in the center.

2. Fold down from the top and up from the bottom halfway to the center (approximately is fine).

3. Fold up each corner of your original paper so that it sticks out above (and below) the fold line. You can match it up to try to make the top and bottom even, or just go with your gut – it’ll still come out fab.

4. Now fold down the very tip of the corner to “round off” what will become your wheels.

5. Fold your left side over, close to where the wheels are (about 1/3 or a little more)

6. Fold that same side back, leaving a skinny little bit still folded over as a mini accordion fold.

7. Refold your origami truck in half along that center fold line that you created in the beginning.

8. Fold down your top left corner, starting from where the vertical pleat is, and about 1/3-halfway down the left side (minus the wheel).

9. Invert/tuck in that last fold.

10. Add any detail you’d like! I drew on a window and some wheel detail.

Your origami truck is complete! What will you be making next? Comment below!

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