Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Balloon!!!















Get Ballooned!!!

This is a super cool, easy and awesome way to make a fun 3D sphere.
And it's interactive~

Step one: Fold your paper diagonally (both ways)
















Step two:

Unfold that and fold your paper in half (both ways)
















Step three:

See that crease in the middle of your folded (in half) rectangle?

Yeah. That one. Now fold the rectangle in half again to make a square, and hold down everything to the left of that crease and open up the right side like this:
















Keep opening... keep folding...

and flatten!
















Step four:

repeat on the other side.

Step five:

Find the bottom corner of the triangle and fold it to the top of the triangle:




















Do this on all sides to make a square.

Step six: take the outside flap of one side of the square and fold it to the crease in the center.
















Do this to the other side as well.

Step seven:

If you turn around so the top of it is facing you, you will see a flap on top.
















On the same side, open up the flap on the side.

Step eight:

Put the to flap into the side flap like a hand into a pocket.















Now flatten it (please, don't want to be bossy (; )

And repeat to the other side.
















Yay! Now just do the exact same thing on the other side...

Step nine:

Turn your little project upside-down and find the small opening:















I'm going to sound crazy, but put your mouth on it.

BLOOOOOWWWW!

PHHHHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUU
inflate!















Pop! You created a balloon!

(I honestly don't think it will float if you put helium in it, sorry )

Check soon for more awesome Origami!

Thursday, June 3, 2010

More Paper Crane Info



Here is another way to get to step four, because people are having trouble with the other instructions-


Step one: fold your paper to make a triangle















Step two: fold a triangle out of your triangle
















Step three: unfold back to the first triangle a little, and open the space to the right of the second triangle's crease.





















Flatten it into a square, then repeat on the back.