Designer: Bilge Ozel, Turkey
Text-Only Instructions by Bilge Ozel - Copyright 2025
This box is a pentagonal box with a square base. It also gets its name, clover, from these pentagonal corner structures.
When it is made from a square paper of 21 cm, it becomes a cute little box. You can also try larger squares.
Step 1
First, make the Waterbomb Base. If you know how to make this shape, you can start making the box from step 6.
To make the Waterbomb Base, hold the square paper so that its edges face right, left, top and bottom.
Take the right edge and fold it over to meet the left edge. When this fold is made, a long rectangle is formed with its short edges facing top and bottom.
Step 2
Open the paper and fold the edge facing you over to the opposite side.
This time, a long rectangle is formed with its short edges on the right and left.
Step 3
Open the paper and turn it over.
Hold the corners of the paper so that they face top and bottom, right and left.
Take the furthest corner and fold it over to meet the corner nearest you.
In this case, the general position of the paper becomes a triangle.
Step 4
Open the paper.
Take the right corner and lay it on top of the left corner.
In this case, the paper becomes a triangle again.
Step 5
Hold the edges of the paper facing top and bottom, right and left.
On the surface of the paper facing the ceiling, you will see 4 peak lines extending towards the corners.
You will also see 4 valley lines extending to the middle points of the edges.
Hold the paper by the peak lines and fold it.
While doing this, make sure that the horizontal valley lines extending to the right and left edge points are bent inward from the paper. When this process is finished, the general structure of the paper is a triangle.
There are 4 wings in total: two wings on the right and two on the left.
Step 6
Hold your waterbomb-shaped paper with the open end facing you.
Take the triangular corner at the top and fold it towards you to touch the flat edge nearest you.
When folded, there will be a flat short edge at the top, two diagonal edges on the upper left and right, and a long edge nearest you.
Unfold the point again.
Step 7
Do the same process on the back surface of the paper and open this fold to make it look like a Waterbomb Base again.
The open end of the shape should still be facing you.
Step 8
Put your finger in the pocket on the side facing you and lift a layer of the paper up.
There is a horizontal line extending from right to left in the middle of the shape, which was created earlier.
Lift the paper up along this line and lay it flat on the opposite side.
As you do this, the sides lift up.
Hold the parts that are lifted up with the thumbs of both hands and then ensure that these parts lie down flat towards you and towards the middle of the paper.
The edges of both side parts will meet in the middle and a pentagon shape is formed.
Do the same on the back surface of the paper.
In this case, there are two parts facing you and swinging freely and the general shape of the paper is a pentagon.
Step 9
Now you will see that, at the top of the pentagon shape, furthest away from you, there are three separate points.
Fold the two points at the back and front of the shape down, towards you, to align them with the bottom edge.
In this case, the main shape of the paper, the pentagon shape, is not changed, but only one point remains at the top.
Step 10
Fold the remaining top corner of the shape towards you, so it meets the center horizontal line.
There is a vertical line on the previously folded piece, that you can check with your hand.
The tip of the corner should be exactly in line with this vertical line.
This fold is a small triangle fold.
Do the same on the back of the paper.
Our goal is to create the base marks of the box.
Open the small triangle you folded again.
Step 11
When you examine the sides of the paper, you will see that there are two flaps on the right and two flaps on the left.
So, as if you were turning the pages of a book, turn the left flap to the right and the right flap, on the back surface, to the left.
Both surfaces will now be smooth.
First, take the triangular point on the right and fold it to the middle.
Do the same on the left side.
The pentagonal structure of the paper is not changed.
Step 12
Apply the same process to the back surface of the paper.
When you do this, the model will now have a generally quadrilateral shape with folded triangle pieces on two back surfaces and two front surfaces.
Step 13
Now focus on the corners of the paper nearest you.
There is a triangle piece on the front, two small triangle pieces swinging freely in the middle and a similar triangle on the back of the shape.
First, take the tip of the triangle piece on the front and fold it to meet the long edge of that triangle.
This is a small triangle fold, made away from you.
When doing this, the corner of the triangle you folded should not extend beyond the edge.
Do the same at the back of the shape.
Step 14
In this case, the general quadrilateral structure of the paper has not been disturbed and there are two freely-swinging triangles facing you.
There are also 4 flaps on the sides, two on the right and two on the left.
Take the flap on the left and lay it on the right side.
Lay the right flap that remains on the back surface on the left side.
Step 15:
Now there are two triangular pieces nearest you, one at the front and one at the back.
Take the front triangular piece and lay it on the opposite side.
Before doing this, check the middle of the paper.
A thick layered structure has formed on the inside.
This thick layered structure has two horizontal lines extending from right to left, reflected on the outer surface of the paper.
One of the lines is close to you, the other is close to the opposite side.
Focus on the line that is close to you and feel this line.
When folding, align the tip of the triangle exactly with this line. Do not let it extend beyond the line.
Open this fold again.
Make the same fold on the back surface of the paper.
Step 16
In this case, the general structure of the paper has become pentagonal again.
Hold the paper up so that the pointed corner of the pentagon is facing the bottom (table). The open edges should be facing the ceiling.
It also has four wings, two on the right and two on the left.
Hold the wings so that one is facing the opposite side, one on the right, one on the left, and one on your side.
The pointed corner of the pentagon should still be facing the table.
That will be the base of the box in a moment.
While holding it in this position, gently open the inside of the box by holding it by the edges.
There are the base lines you created earlier on the outer surface of the paper.
Create the base by folding the box from these lines.
Step 17
There are 4 concave looking structures facing the ceiling and also facing right, left, towards and away from you.
Check these structures; there are holes like pockets inside each structure.
The holes are facing the inner surface of the box.
Insert your finger through these holes and make the concave structure curve outwards.
Curving can be a bit difficult, because there is a line running right in the middle of these surfaces and when you do this, it feels like it will tear.
However, if you do the cambering process gently, there will be no tearing.
After cambering, these corners become pentagonal and are slightly slanted downwards.
When you hold the base edges of the box on the left and right, the sharp corners of these cambered pentagons are facing towards the upper right, lower right, upper left and lower left directions.
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Compiled: January 2025
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