free Ghost papercraft toy by Made in Paperland

The Made in Paperland website made lots of fun free papercraft toys over the years of course, but the Ghost 👻 one may be the most fitting for Halloween! 🎃

Download + build your own free Ghost papercraft toy (and LOTS more, by Made in Paperland):

https://en.madeinpaperland.ru/

free papercraft Smartphone Zombie

A lot of people dress up as zombies for Halloween 🎃, but sometimes they really ARE zombies! 😱

A "long time ago", people used to say to kids they should go outside instead of hanging in front of the television all the time to avoid turning into mindless zombies.

Well, nowadays they do go outside - only to turn into mindless zombies by looking at their smartphone screens anyway! 🧟📱

Download + build your own free papercraft Smartphone Zombie (+ lots more, by Salazad):

https://salazad.com/papertoys/phonezombie/

free papercraft Trippy mascot by Tottori Prefecture

Make a free papercraft Trippy,  the mascot for Tottori Prefecture's "Let's Create a Wind of Experience" campaign!

Download + build your own free papercraft Trippy mascot (by Tottori Prefecture Web Site):

https://db.pref.tottori.jp/pressrelease2.nsf/webview/44CF7FF934A4F3DA4925866F001F747B

(download instructions: click the two "shizentaiken_..." PDF files near the bottom of the Tottori Prefecture Web Site: Trippy's template is on the leaflet the other one are!)

free papercraft Splatoon 3 Fresh Fish mascot head

Splatoon is a crazy game about the battles between Inklings 🦑 and Octolings 🐙 - and then there's this Fresh Fish mascot head you can get from an amiibo in the game. And now there is this free papercraft Fresh Fish Head 🐟 from Puffer Fish.

Download + build your own free papercraft Splatoon 3 Fresh Fish mascot head (by Paper Puffer):

https://www.paperpuffer.com/splahireokun/

(download instructions: click the "ひれおくん展開図" link at the bottom of the article on Paper Puffer site)

papercraft Halloween Jack-o-lantern

Jack-o-lanterns 🎃 are really a quintessential decoration for Halloween but the pumpkins they can be very messy to hollow out to make space for a light - except when you make them out of papercraft! 😊

Download + buid your own free papercraft Halloween Jack-o-lantern (by HP Printables):

https://printables.hp.com/nz/en/printable/default/paper-pumpkin-candle-holder-crafts-halloween-series

free papercraft Tsuruoka City garbage truck

Students could build their own free papercraft garbage truck in a black-and-white/color yourself or a colored version truck at the Tsuruoka Environment Fair and what's more, you can also just download one right now at home to enjoy! 😀

Download + build your own free papercraft garbage truck (by Tsuruoka City):

https://www.city.tsuruoka.lg.jp/kurashi/gomi-seikatsu/kakushuseido/papercraft.html

(download instructions: click the two "ごみ収集車ペーパークラフト" PDF links just below the pictures near the bottom on Tsuruoka City's website)

free papercraft Dracula's Castle

I showed you a free Designs by Miss Mandee papercraft Christmas Village Toy Store last year, and I just hope you found the free papercraft Dracula's Castle 🦇🏰 for Halloween 🎃 too along all of the other creations at Designs by Miss Mandee! 😀

She creates her papercrafts to be cut out using a cutting machine on colored cardstock, but if you don't have one you can do that by hand too and/or color it yourself any way you want to! 😊

Download + build your own free papercraft b/w Dracula's Castle (by Designs by Miss Mandee):

https://www.designsbymissmandee.com/2021/10/draculas-castle/

free Rodrigo Rivas Costa's Papercraft tool with cool Pokémon and die examples!

"And now, for something completely different!" Well, "something somewhat different" I guess, in that it isn't really a 'daily download' papercraft that I found and am telling you about that you can just download and build yourself for free. ...wait, you can just do that too... You know, let's just start telling you! 😊

You know, I've used Pepakura for a VERY long time to make papercraft models and I still absolutely love it! There are actually many other 'unwrappers' that you can use though, and Papercraft from Rodrigo Rivas Costa is another one! 😀

Papercraft looks like Pepakura that you can install on your computer to use offline or like the online Paper Maker, just a version that looks like it 
fewer options (but that really doesn't 😉).

It's a standalone application, meaning you can download it to your computer, but you don't actually have to install it on your computer! You can just download and unpack the last Papercraft Asset (like the 32- or 64-bit version Zip-files for Microsoft Windows or the DMG file for MacOS computers) at the bottom from Rodrigo Rivas Costa's Github account and just unpack it in a folder to run it: 😃

https://github.com/rodrigorc/papercraft/releases/

NOTE: my Microsoft Defender SmartScreen doesn't recognize rodrigorc as a big software publisher, so the first time I ran his Papercraft application it told me it wanted to protect my computer from harm: ONLY CLICK More info to reveal the Run anyway button if you trust it of course!

If you do trust it and download it, you can use Rodrigo's Papercraft tool from a file folder from your computer! 😀 It's a pretty self-explanatory tool and there's a whole README on Rodrigo's Github to learn how to Import a new *.obj or *.stl 3D model (that you do need to make first in Blender for example) and (of course I would say 😉) it can also import Pepakura *.pdo files.

What's more, if you look in the unpacked download folder, you can also Open four *.craft files (that's the very aptly named file extension for the Papercraft tool 😊): Rodrigo added a papercraft die 🎲 and (because I think he's a Pokémon fan to, just look at his user icon on his Github page 😉) a papercraft low-poly Bulbasaur 🌱, Charmander 🔥 and Pikachu 🗲 (made by Agustin Arroyo under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0  license) to show you what his Papercraft tool can do and to get you started!

I think Rodrigo's Papercraft is a very cool unwrapping tool, so check it out and if you create any nice paper model, Rodigo would appreciate it if you open an issue on Papercraft's Github page and send some pictures! 😀

Rodrigo Rivas Costa's Papercraft tool:

https://github.com/rodrigorc/papercraft/releases/

free papercraft Settsu City fire engine truck

Settsu City has a fire department headquarters and three branch offices (the Senrioka branch, the Torikai branch and the Ajio branch). This free papercraft pumper firetruck 🚒 was apparantly created by a fire department employee themselves!

Download + build your own free papercraft fire engine truck (Settsu City Official Web Site):

https://www.city.settsu.osaka.jp/soshiki/shoubousho/yobou/1202.html

(download instructions: click the PDF link near the bottom of the Settsu City Web Site; also here, there click the papercraft template on GoguyNet's webpage for the PDF file)

free papercraft Chikorita Pokémon by Tenpepakura

Unlike Electric-type Pikachu, this papercraft Chikorita Pokémon is a Grass-type (but in reality, both are made from paper of course! 😉).

Download + build your own free papercraft Chikorita Pokémon (+lots more, by Tenpepakura):

https://ten-ppcr.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog-post.html

(download instructions: click the green "https://drive.google.com/..." link in the article on Tenpepakura's website)

2025 free papercraft Modulo Civic type-R GT race car by Epson Nakajima

The 2025 Epson Nakajima Racing papercraft Modulo Civic type-R GT race car has just been released on their website! 🙂

Download + build your own free papercraft Modulo Civic type-R GT race car (by Epson Nakajima Racing):

https://www.epson.jp/sponsor/nakajima/craft/modulocivictypergt2025/

(download instructions: click the orange "作り方ダウンロード" buttons at the bottom on the Epson Nakajima Racing site)

free papercraft World Expo 2025 German pavillion Circular-chan mascot by Nozomi Uni

The World Expo 2025 was held van April 13 to October 13 this year in Japan (Osaka, Kansai),so you know they had to make a lot of cute mascots! 😉

The overall theme was "Designing Future Society for Our Lives" and Germany envisions the future as a circular economy! 😃

Nozomi Uni made a papercraft Circular-chan ♻️ mascot for the German pavilion, and you can download it for free now if you couldn't visit the World Expo! 

Download + build your own free papercraft World Expo 2025 German pavilion Circular-chan mascot (Nozomi Uni):

https://x.com/nozomi_uni/status/1977721918037057843

(download instructions: click the "firestorage.jp/..." link in Nozomi's Twitter thread)

free papercraft Kengyokozuka tomb at Asuka Historical Museum

This papercraft of the Kengyokozuka tomb isペーパークラフト probably a mausoleum for empress Saimei and her daughter princess Hashihito, that you can visit in the town of Asuka, Nara in the Kansai region of Japan! 🙂

Download + build your own free papercraft Kengyokozuka tomb (by Asuka Historical Museum):

https://www.nabunken.go.jp/asuka/download/

(download instruction: under "ぬりえ・ペーパークラフト" at the bottom on Asuka Historical Museum's site)

The Sims 4: Papercraft Awaits in October 2025 expansion pack!

Everybody knows the Sims games! Even if you never played them (like me to be honest), you know it's a life/social simulation videogame that well, lets you play your life and be good at it! (or die trying I guess 😉)

Of course you could use this official papercraft Sims 3 Plumbob since 2012 (under "Origami  Plumbob" next to the third Sims 3 "Celebrate the Sims' Birthday! POSTED ON 1/24/12 08:48 PM" logo near the top if you go to the American site using the USA flag at the top of the Sims 3 page!) to go as a Sims character for Halloween 🎃, but that's not the new news that I want to bring you now!

NEW NEWS

On October 2, 2025 they released the Adventure Awaits expansion pack for the Sims 4 and one of the adventures that awaits you is the ability to learn a fun hobby called 'papercraft':

"Download and print a page of 2D parts (preferably on some thicker paper) cut them out and fold them, and then glue them together to make your very own 3D paper model of your favourite game/anime/movie character/whatever you like!"

Okay, it's a little bit different in the Sims because you first need to get the DIY Delight Papercrafting Kit from Build Mode in the game for §20 (Simoleon, Sims dollars in the game) or have the luck to just come across some papercrafting supplies in the Sims world (never happened to me to be honest in real life, but you never know! 😉)

(sreenshots from Simming Simplified)

Elder, adult, young adult, teen and child sims can learn the skill. Learning means you have to practice the skill until you get better and better at it it (just like in real life of course 😀). Just like in real life most people can build a paper airplane or do some simple origami (or their origami Plumbob I guess 😉) from the start but you improve from your level 1 to level 10 by practice (sure you can read papercrafting books, but it goes much slower and only gets you to level 9)! I think once you are at level 10, you can become a papercraft mentor to help others I think!

What to can do with your papercrafts? You can gift them to your friends or proudly display them around your house (get a lot more shelves in your house...! 😉)

(screenshots from the The Sims Community)

Have fun playing the Sims 4 Adventure Awaits expansion and building papercrafts! 😊

(well and scour the internet to find out more about the Sims 4 new papercraft skills - just like in real life 😉)

DISCLAIMER:

Your Sim might get bitten by the papercraft bug 🐛 too and start making their own

free papercraft Tomb Raider vignettes, or even make their own papercraft webpage:

Ninjatoes' papercraft webpage

free Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation papercraft tram and automated train

Besides the papercraft subway trains I showed you before, the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation also have this tram 🚋 and automated Nippori-Toneri train 🚊 on their papercraft page too (and even the colorful Ueno Zoo monorail here as well! 🚝)

Download + build your own free papercraft Tokyo Sakura tram and the Nippori-Toner automated train (by Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation):

https://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/pickup_information/papercraft/

(extra: same subway trains as here and colorful Ueno Zoo monorail here)

Tdesign510's Halloween (+ lots more!) papercraft lantern templates

You can download free Halloween papercraft lanterns 🎃 from Tdesign510 (and lots more free and commercial ones too! 😊) as templates for a cutting machine to make them out of colored cardstock. You can also put the included PDF or even PNG parts together on the sheets as long as they fit together of course (with an image editor like Photoshop or a free alternative like GIMP for example) to not have to use so many sheets! 😊

Download + build your own free papercraft seasonal lantern templates (by Tdesign510):

https://tdesign510.com/free-template/

free LARGER official papercraft Sky: Children of the Light Manatee

A little while ago I showed you that you could download a fun official Manatee papercraft from Sky: Children of the Light, and now I can tell you that they made the Japanese version in an even bigger version LARGER on several pages! 😀

Download + build your own free LARGER official papercraft Sky: Children of the Light Manatee (by Sky: Children of the Light):

https://x.com/thatskygameJP/status/1976224932456694060

(download instructions: click the "https://drive.google.com/..." link in Sky: Children of the Light's Tweet)

free National Astronomical Observatory of Japan papercraft globes and telescopes

I think the National Astronomical Observatory website has been updated to download all the globes and telescope papercrafts they have in one space! 🌕🌍🔭

Download + build your own free papercraft globes and telescopes (by National Astromical Observatory of Japan):

https://www.nao.ac.jp/gallery/

(download instructions: scroll down to the "ペーパークラフト" header on the National Astromical Observatory of Japan gallery)

free Halloween printable papercraft DoxBlox toys

One of the things you can print from doxdirect.com for the Spooky Season 🎃 are these four DoxBlox Halloween printable papercraft toys! (the MonsterBlox and the MummyBlox 👾 were available in an older e-mail letter and I DO NOT KNOW if you can still ask them for it if you like them...?)

Download + build your own free  Halloween printable papercraft DoxBlox toys (by doxdirect.com):

https://www.doxdirect.com/blog/spooky-halloween-papercraft-printables/

free papercraft Freiwillige Feuerwehr Ahrensburg fire truck

Halloween 🎃 is about a month away marking the Spooky Season 👻, and I hope you know what that means of course? Time to enjoy yourself building free papercraft fire trucks! 🚒 (what you can basically do every day of the year too of course 😉)

Download + build your own free papercraft fire trucks (by Freiwilige Feuerwehr Ahrensburg):

https://www.facebook.com/FFAhrensburg/posts/feuerwehr-zum-selber-basteln-bastelbogen-f%C3%BCr-kinder-besichtigungen-tage-der-offe/3290349837666318/

free Marine Marine Self Defense Force papercrafts

Usually papercrafts from the Japanese Marine Self Defense Force are just from navy ships, 🛳 but the First Technical School has some buildings 🏫 and a General's cap one too!

Download + build your own free Marine Marine Self Defense Force papercrafts (by JMSDF Japan Marine Self-Defense Force First Service School):

https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/onemss/pepakurafuto/pepakurafuto.html

free papercraft JR East E3 series 2000 Tsubasa train

This colorful train from JR East is officially the E3 series 2000 Tsubasa for the Japanese Yamagata Shinkansen (high-speed) line, with colors that kinda look like that of a mandarin duck! 🦆🚄

Download + build your own free papercraft E3 series 2000 Tsubasa train (by JR East):

https://www.jreast.co.jp/sendai/e3_tsubasatsunagu/

 

(download instructions: scroll down to about halfway to "Fun contents" to the orange "ダウンロード" button on JR East's webpage)