How to fold a Turtle
Posted: August 5th, 2006, 5:28 pm
Well after being disappointed with the turtle in the LaFosse book I started thinking I could design a turtle that looks just as crappy as his does when its not wet folded, folded from foil, duo foil, foil backed MC coated paper glued to 1inch steel plate or 1000 year old papyrus purchased from origamido etc etc and after a grand total of 20 minutes I have managed it.
No diagram but it’s very simple and has both sides of the shell.
1. Fold both diagonals and book folds.
2. Fold the middle of the left and right sides down to the middle of the bottom forming a waterbomb base /
3. Rabbit ear the left hand front flap up, NOTE while it should start from the middle of the bases bottom and head up towards the tip of the triangle top it should be offset from the top by about 1cm.
4. Repeat step 3 but this time have the rabbit ear pointing down (the gap should still be at the top.
5. Turn the paper over.
6. Repeat steps 3 and 4 but this time fold the right side up and the left down.
7. Fold the front right flap over to the left and the back left flap over to the right.
8. Outside reverse fold all the points till the stand out far enough to be flippers.
9. Crimp the top layer of each flipper close to the end to make them look more flipper like (this is more of a swivel fold).
10. Decide where the shell should end then crimp sink the point to form a head
11. Shape head and if you have a straw you can blow the turtle up in a manner which will entertain most 5 year olds... alternatively you can shape the shell a little too.
12. If turtle has not been blown up perform a similar manoeuvre to 10 at the bottom with a smaller amount of paper to form a tail.
Ta da, as promised you are now the proud owner of a turtle that looks just as crappy as a La-Fosse model sans wet folding.
No diagram but it’s very simple and has both sides of the shell.
1. Fold both diagonals and book folds.
2. Fold the middle of the left and right sides down to the middle of the bottom forming a waterbomb base /
3. Rabbit ear the left hand front flap up, NOTE while it should start from the middle of the bases bottom and head up towards the tip of the triangle top it should be offset from the top by about 1cm.
4. Repeat step 3 but this time have the rabbit ear pointing down (the gap should still be at the top.
5. Turn the paper over.
6. Repeat steps 3 and 4 but this time fold the right side up and the left down.
7. Fold the front right flap over to the left and the back left flap over to the right.
8. Outside reverse fold all the points till the stand out far enough to be flippers.
9. Crimp the top layer of each flipper close to the end to make them look more flipper like (this is more of a swivel fold).
10. Decide where the shell should end then crimp sink the point to form a head
11. Shape head and if you have a straw you can blow the turtle up in a manner which will entertain most 5 year olds... alternatively you can shape the shell a little too.
12. If turtle has not been blown up perform a similar manoeuvre to 10 at the bottom with a smaller amount of paper to form a tail.
Ta da, as promised you are now the proud owner of a turtle that looks just as crappy as a La-Fosse model sans wet folding.