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Origami Cup Template

The drinking cup folded from one square, with its four folds printed and numbered. No glue, no cutting inside. Picnics, parties, science lessons and a cup for seeds or sweets.

Origami cup — change shape

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Only here Your own design

Put a logo, photo or pattern straight onto the box — most free template sites give you the outline and stop there. Drag it where you want it; it is trimmed to the cut lines so nothing prints off the card, and it stays in your browser.

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Bigger than the paper? Each piece prints whole on its own sheet. A single piece is never split: pick bigger paper or a smaller size. More about printing

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Drop a picture anywhere on the drawingTap “Add a picture” below to print your own design on this box.

Print at 100% (“actual size”), never “fit to page”, or the box comes out the wrong size.

The origami cup template, flat and folded

Origami cup template — free printable dieline with cut and fold lines, any size
The printable dieline at its standard size. Type your own size above for yours.
Origami cup folded up from the template — the finished piece
The box it folds into.

What this template is for

The drinking cup folded from one square, with its four folds printed and numbered. No glue, no cutting inside. Picnics, parties, science lessons and a cup for seeds or sweets.

Also called origami cup · folded paper cup · paper drinking cup · origami drinking cup — all the same shape, and this is it.

How to use this template

All four downloads are the same origami cup at the same size — only the format changes.

PDF printing at home
Print at 100 per cent, or hand it to a print shop as "actual size, no scaling".
PNG 300 dpi Canva, Photoshop, Procreate
Upload, lock it in place and design your origami cup on top. Free plan and phone included. Full Canva walkthrough →
SVG Cricut, Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity
Vector, with cuts, folds and labels on separate layers. Cricut and Silhouette walkthrough →
DXF Silhouette, laser and vinyl cutters
Two layers, CUT and FOLD — and the one free Silhouette Studio Basic will open.

Getting it printed properly →

Printing it

  1. Type your size above, then download the PDF.
  2. Print at 100% — never “fit to page”, or every measurement comes out wrong.
  3. Too big for the paper? Pick your paper size and leave Fit the pieces to the page ticked: each piece gets its own place on a sheet and the PDF comes out with every page in it, nothing cut in half and nothing to tape.

How to put it together

These pictures are the origami cup itself, not a generic diagram — change the measurements above and the template changes, but the three steps never do.

  1. Cut the solid lines

    Every solid line is a cut. Do the inside shapes first, while the sheet is still whole and easy to hold.

  2. Score every dashed line

    Dashed lines are folds. Score each one first — an empty ballpoint against a ruler — or the card cracks along the outside of the bend.

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    Fold, glue and hold

    Cut out the square, printed side down. Fold on the lines in the order of their numbers: 1 in half on the diagonal; 2 one bottom corner across to the opposite edge; 3 the other corner across the same way; 4 the front top flap down into the pocket in front, and the back flap down behind. Squeeze the sides to open the cup.

Glue: a glue stick for paper, white PVA on card — hold each seam thirty seconds, and let the box dry standing up.

Questions about the origami cup

Will it hold water?
For a minute or two on plain paper. Waxed paper, baking paper or coated paper holds a drink much longer.
How big is the cup?
Folded flat, the rim is about 0.59 times the square’s side and the cup is about 0.41 times it deep, with a narrow flat bottom: a 180 mm square makes a cup about 105 mm across the rim, 75 mm deep and 44 mm across the bottom.
How is it different from the paper cup template?
The paper cup template is a rolled, glued cup with a flat base. This one is folded from one uncut square with no glue, the way it is done in origami.

Print your own design on it

Add a logo, photo or pattern in the panel on the left and drag it onto the origami cup. It is trimmed to the cut outline, embedded properly in the PDF, and never leaves your computer — most free template sites hand you the outline and stop there. How printing your own design works.

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