Longevity Peach

From one A4 sheet to your paper cut

Keep this design flat

The peach outline and its one-sided opening differ across the center.

Start with a complete, uncut sheet. Each picture shows the paper before that step; red dashes mark only the next cuts. Keep the surrounding paper until the outside-cutting step.

1. Start with a full A4 sheet

Take one blank A4 sheet (210 x 297 mm), preferably thin colored paper. Print PDF page 1 separately at 100% and check its 50 mm line. Center the pattern on your blank sheet; do not cut off the surrounding paper yet.

2. Transfer the complete drawing

Keep the peach flat: the leaf and inner curved slit are not mirrored. Trace the full drawing upright. Keep the waste paper around the fruit until all three inner openings are finished.

3. Cut the inside first

Cut the leaf opening, the oval opening on the left of the fruit, and the long curved slit, one layer at a time. An adult starts each closed opening on a mat. Follow both edges of the slit without widening it into the outer contour.

4. Release the outside contour

Follow the leaf tip and the rounded fruit outline last. Turn the paper instead of forcing a tight scissor turn at the leaf base. Keep the leaf attached to the peach and lift the result by the broad fruit body.

5. Lift and refine

Gently release the cut design from the surrounding offcuts. Lay it flat and trim only attached scraps or uneven edges. Preserve the connection between the leaf and fruit. A finished opening does not need to be cut again.

Use an open sheet to preserve this exact design. You can make a separate mirrored variation, but it will change the supplied pattern.

PDF page 1 is the clean full-size pattern; pages 2–3 show this complete sequence. A4 is the default; the Letter download uses a Letter sheet. Try a scrap first to check fragile bridges.