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Leaping into origami
WRItING AND ARt by KASEy LIU
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April is National Frog Month! To celebrate, try folding an origami frog using the instructions provided. After you fold the frog, use your finger to push down on its back. By doing this, it will leap, just as you have leaped into origami!
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Fold your square paper in half. Open the paper, and fold it in half the other way.
Fold your half-paper in half again and open. The crease will act as a guide. Crease the corner of your folded paper down to form a right triangle so that the edges are aligned. Open the crease from Step 2. Repeat Step 2 on the other side.
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Open the crease from Step 4. Fold the top of the paper down to the middle, and unfold it. Fold the center triangle down and the side triangles toward the middle. Push everything down flat.
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Fold the bottom of the paper to meet the triangle you have just created. Fold the left side of the paper into the middle, but don’t fold the triangle on top. The paper will tuck behind this triangle. Repeat Step 8 for the right side. Fold the bottom of the paper along the dotted line.
Flip the whole thing over, and it’s complete! Push down on the back folds to make your frog leap!
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Fold each side down along the dotted line, and unfold to make diagonal creases. Pull the two inner flaps of the paper outwards. Flatten this section into a boat shape. Fold each side of the trapezoid down along the dotted line. Crease the edges of the triangle upward to make the arms. The angle doesn’t matter, as long as they resemble the diagram.
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Fold the bottom left and right parts of the paper outward to make the legs. The angle doesn’t matter, as long as they resemble the diagram. Fold the entire thing up along the dotted line.
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Fold the top part down along the dotted line.
