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| Sunday, October 22, 2006 |
| How to make an origami paper crane |
Starting off with a square piece of paper. Your first fold will be to turn the square into a triangle by folding the piece of paper in half.
this is how your triangle will look
Now, you're going to take your triangle, and fold it in half once again to make a smaller triangle
now, you've got a smaller triangle. See the opening underneath the top section of paper. Your going to fold that out into a square on both sides.
by putting your finger on the inside, and to the back of the triangle, you can fold that triangle into a square.
now you've got a square on one side, and you're about to turn it over to make what looks like a shark fin on the other:)
See that opening on the shark fin? stick your finger in there, and flatten out the fin in order to make a sqaure on the other side.
see, now you've got a square on both sides with an opening on each side. The next step is a bit tricky. You're going to turn that square into what looks like an ice cream cone by folding the edges of the square inside to the center. You want the tip of the bottom of the cone to be the side that has an opening on it.
just fold those corners to the center.
see, now you've got half of your ice cream cone. Do the same to the other side now.
take the top triangle part (where the actual ice cream would be on the cone) and fold it back and forth. This is just a helper fold, but you'll see why you need to do this in the next step.
Now, you need to open up the previous folds of your cone so it looks like this.
putting your finger into the opening at the bottom of the cone, what you're going to do is push the inside up to make a diamond, this is a bit tricky at first.
see, now you've got your diamond. Repeat this step on the other side. It's like a diamond that has little legs on the bottom. The next step will be to make a helper fold with those little legs.
You're going to now take one of those legs and fold it at an angle up towards the top of the cone. This is just a helper fold, your about to turn that leg into the neck of the crane.
This is probably the hardest fold to understand. What you're going to do is to take that leg and open it up along the side of the cone, and push it upwards, and inside out.
See, now you've got the neck of your crane. Repeat these last step on the other side as well.
Now, all you have to do is bend the end of the neck down a bit to form the beak.
And now you've got you're crane:) |
posted by Jeremiah Palecek @ 7:06 PM   |
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