How to Make Origami Shoes

You now want to make a couple of small, detail folds which are going to make the front part of your heeled shoe - the bit which you would slip your feet into if they were real!

We're going to fold again the section of paper that we've just folded in #3. Take hold of the top of the folded flap on the right hand side and fold it down into a little triangle as shown in the photo. You want to fold this over to the south east but not all the way over to the outside edge. Repeat this small fold on the left side.

If you want to leave your shoes with a sharp point at the front like you do get with some stilettos then you can - just move on to #7 and skip this part. 

I like to round off the tip of my folded shoes and here's how you do this. Take hold of the left corner of paper and bend a little back then make a good fold. Unfold back to a point. Here's the tricky part. You want to lift your shoe up from your work surface, open it out at the front a little (look at the middle photo) and push the tip of the paper shoe backwards so it goes underneath the paper. The last photo shoes how the tip of the paper has completely disappeared under the bottom of your shoe. 

Now you make the heel of your shoe. This works in much the same way as #6.

Take the right-most corner of the paper and fold it back and down as shown in the first photo to make a rough heel shape. What will become the very tip of the heel should extend past the sole or bottom of your shoe. Unfold the fold you've just made.

Lift the paper shoe up from your work surface and open out the right side of it a little from the bottom which is basically what forms the sole of your origami shoe. Push the corner of paper on the right hand side (the heel) down and inside the middle of your shoe. You're bending the heel backwards so it sits inside the shoe when folded flat. See how it should look with the last image.