How to Make Your Own Ddakji 딱지접기

Looking for a fun Korean craft to do with your child? Here is a basic method of making your own Korean ddakji (딱지접기).

Step 12: End product should look like this. Make several more and now you can play Korean ddakji! Here's a link of our prior post on what Korean ddakji is.

Step 11: Tuck in the last red side under the green as shown.

Step 10: Fold over last red side as shown.

Step 9: Fold over the other green side as shown.

Step 8: Fold over red side as shown.

Step 7: Fold over the green side as shown.

Step 6: Place red piece on top of your green piece as shown.

Step 5: Make creases as shown.

Step 4: Flip over and fold the back as you did in the front. Should look like this.

Step 3: Make a crease in the middle by folding it in half and then bring edge over to middle to make fold as shown above. Do this to your other green piece as well.

Step 2: Fold in half the origami paper. Do this with both sheets (red and green).

Step 1: Get 2 pieces of Origami Paper. If you don't have it, you will need to cut 2 pieces of paper so that each sheet measures 6 inches x 6 inches.

Ddakji

When I was little our family went to Korea (my first time) when I was about 8 years old. We stayed with our grandparents and it was there that I learned the game ddakji with the neighborhood kids.

Ddak-ji is a popular Korean childrens game played using specially made cardboard disks. The disks resemble Pogs but are perhaps thinner and slightly curved. Unlike the games played using Pogs, Ddak-ji uses no 'slammer' piece. Only the ddakji themselves are used.

In the basic version of the game the throwing player is chosen by 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' and the losing player places their disk on the table. The active player throws their disk down on it in an attempt to make the inactive player's disk flip over. The curvature of the disks makes finesse an important part of the technique. If a disk is flipped, the player who flipped it gets to keep it. Variants of this play style exist. (taken from boardgamegeek.com)

Back in those days we made our own ddakji with paper and would decorate it. The newer versions are made with popular characters like Pokemon and Maple Story and is hugely popular right now with kids in Korea.

We recently picked up some ddakji for Little Seouls and introduced them to our boys. They were very intrigued and actually ended up really liking the game.

Try it! It's only $.99 for a pack of 7 pogs. I warn you...your kids will get hooked!