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Wokingham Borough Libraries Weekly Origami Challenge: Under the
sea
Can you make these under the sea creatures from square pieces of
paper?
When you’ve finished please take a photo and tag Wokingham
Borough Libraries on our social media or email your photo to
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Find instructions here of how to make rectangular paper square
if you do not have origami paper at home.
Thanks to https://en.origami-club.com/ and
https://www.easypeasyandfun.com/easy-origami-fish/ and
https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/easy-traditional-origami-turtle-instructions-3893012
for the instructions.
If you’ve missed them, our previous origami packs can be found
here! We have made:
Shakespeare Week – The Tempest Play Easter Pondlife Dinosaurs
Star Wars Flowers
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Fish
1. Start by folding a square piece of paper diagonally (both
sides) and in half (one side) – crease and unfold as shown on the
first image above.
2. Hold the paper as indicated with blue spots and fold towards
the centre to get a triangle shape. 3. Now hold the right bottom
corner of the triangle and fold it toward the centre along the
crease shown
on the first image above. 4. Do the same with the other corner –
we got fish tail!
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Sea Turtle
1. Start white side up if you have one.
2. Fold the paper in half diagonally so that you have a pyramid
shape as shown.
3. Fold the bottom right corner up to the middle point.
4. Do the same on the left side.
5. Fold the top of the right flap down to the bottom.
6. Fold the top left flap down as well.
7. Fold the bottom right flap out to the right.
8. Repeat on the left side.
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9. Get some scissors and cut the front layer, from the bottom
point to the very center.
10. You should now be able to move the flaps as shown.
11. Fold the bottom flaps to match the ones at the top.
12. Fold the left and the right points inwards, not all the way
to the middle.
You may need to use a bit of glue to make these flaps stay in
place.
All images: Chrissy Pk
13. Fold the top point down.
14. Fold that flap back up, leaving a little gap, this is called
a pleat fold.
15. Turn the turtle over. You can fold him in half a bit for a
more 3D look, and you can even add some eyes
