How to Fold a Simple Origami Flower

Fold your paper in half diagonally, both ways. (This step, and the next one, are optional, but it the next two steps a little bit easier)^[1]

Fold it in half like a card. Both ways.

Fold all the corners to the middle. (this is where steps 2 and 3 help you)

Repeat.

Turn over and repeat.^[2]

Fold the paper in half both ways just to give it a little shape. Let's call the side you just folded the 'top side' and the side with the two sets of corners folded to the middle the 'bottom side'. Have the top side facing you and the bottom side down. Look at the flaps on the bottom side. Stick your fingers into these and push them all to the middle. (index and thumb is easiest)

Take your fingers out of it. You should be looking at something like this. This is a completed fortune teller. The next steps tell you how to turn it into a flower.^[3]

Look at the flaps you stick your fingers under. Fold each one of the points at the bottom on these up to the points at the top.