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Thursday, August 2, 2012

How to make an origami crane

Making an origami crane isn't as hard as it looks like. It is really easy. Once you get to learn the steps, it's actually a piece of cake! Here is the step by step directions to make a paper crane. You will need nothing but origami paper.

1. First lay the paper the colorless side up. Fold it into a triangle, corner to corner.


2. Next,fold that into a triangle too.
3. Now, make a origami square base.
This website tells you how to make a square base.
4. Now, fold inwards the first layer of your square base to the center. Then fold the top inwards also.
Then unfold.







5. Next do the petal fold. Here is a link that tells you how to do it.
http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-petal-fold.html

6. Once you have done that, turn it to the back.





7. Next, you repeat steps 4 and 5







8. Now it should look like this...



9. Now fold both sides to the middle.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    




10. Turn it to the back and do the same step.
      It should look like this.




11.  Now, you should fold the right wing inside the crane's body.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    





12. Then, do the same to the left wing.                                                                                     



13. Now for the last step, you fold the crane on side to make it look like a head.             


FINALLY, YOU ARE FINISHED!!!
                                                                          


                                                                          

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Summer Project

Summer is coming to an end, but you still have time to do some fun projects to end your boring days. Here is a fun project that I really liked.

Customized Switch Plates

What you need:
• construction paper( whatever colors you want)
• scissors
• ruler
• markers/crayons/pens
• glue

Instructions:
1. Outline and measure your light switch you want to make the cover for.
Try to make it as precise as you can, because if the cover is too small or too big, it won't look that clean.

2. After you have a ready template for your switch cover, sketch out the design you want to have, for example you can have beach as your theme or even just print your name. [ 2nd pic on the bottom is my template]

3. Next, you trace the template around the construction paper of your choice. Then cut it out. You should now have a colored construction paper exactly like your template.

4. Now it is time to decorate it like you want it. Use markers, crayons, pens, glitter, shells, pom poms, and even fabric!!!

5. Now you tape your cover to the switch plate and you are done!!! [ I have made a beach themed one with shells... Pic is the 1st picture]