Origami Rubik’s Cube
Origami

Origami Rubik’s Cube

by Jo Nakashima

How to make an origami Rubik’s Cube by Jo Nakashima
Designed by Jo Nakashima (07/2019)
Difficulty level: intermediate

This is a modular origami and each cube is made from a single sheet of paper. The “stickers” are also origami units, all connected without glue.

While real Rubik’s Cube are puzzles that you can scramble and solve, this is just a static origami representation of it. However I already created a magnetic version that is fully functional!

Paper

I recommend using 9cm x 9cm origami paper (but any square size works, of course).

  • 27 sheets for the cube units (black)
  • 6 sheets to be cut into smaller rectangles for the “sticker” units (red, blue, green, yellow, white and orange)

Helpful videos

To make this model you’ll need to fold a 5×5 grid on many sheets of paper. In the tutorial I show the “origami way” to do that, without a ruler or any kind of tool. However, there are easier methods and the videos below can help you in this task:

Use parallel lines (like a notebook page) to divide the paper
Use the first grid to fold the other sheets easily

To cut the rectangles for the sticker units I recommend this paper cutter: