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How to fold an origami camel

Fold a triangle, cut four long thin legs and shape a hump. Crimp the neck down, up and the head forward, and crimp a tail down behind the rump.

You need: 1 square sheet, 15 × 15 cm, tan on one side, small scissors and a ruler. Hard, 19 steps, about 25 minutes.

Steps

  1. Fold in half. White side up, fold the top corner down to the bottom corner. The long fold at the top is the camel's back.
  2. Crease the middle. Fold the triangle in half, right point onto the left point, and crease it hard. This crease marks the back of the front leg.
  3. Open it. Unfold it back into the triangle.
  4. Crease the neck line. Fold the right point over on an upright crease 1.1 cm right of the middle crease, and crease it hard. The neck starts here.
  5. Open it. Unfold it again.
  6. Crease the back leg. Fold the left point over on an upright crease 2.25 cm left of the middle crease, and crease it. This marks the front of the back leg.
  7. Open it. Unfold it again.
  8. Cut the legs. Cut the bottom point off 7.2 cm below the top. Cut up the leg creases to 3.4 cm below the top and across between the back two. Slim the legs.
  9. Shape the hump. Cut the back down from the hump to the tail end in two cuts, and in one cut to the neck crease 8 mm down. Cut 8 mm down the crease and trim the neck's corner.
  10. Cut the neck. Cut the neck's edge from 1.6 cm down the neck crease to 1 cm below the top, 7.9 cm out. Cut the point off there, round the nose, cut 5.5 cm back along the top fold.
  11. Tail back. Fold each layer of the left point over onto the body, on an upright crease from the end of the back's slope.
  12. Cut the tail. Cut the folded point to a strip 7 mm wide along its top edge, and cut up the crease to it from below. Round the rump down to the back leg.
  13. Tail down. Fold the tail back out on a crease from its top corner, so it hangs down behind the rump. Glue its layers together.
  14. Neck back. Fold each layer of the neck back over the body, on the neck crease.
  15. Neck down. Fold it out again on a crease from the top of the neck crease, so the neck reaches forward and down from the shoulders.
  16. Bend the neck. Fold the end of each neck layer back along the neck, on a crease straight across it 2.4 cm from the shoulder.
  17. Neck up. Fold it out again on a crease from the same bottom corner, slanting up and back, so the neck curves up high. Glue the layers together.
  18. Head back. Fold the top 1.9 cm of the neck down along it, on a crease straight across from the back of the neck.
  19. Head out. Fold it up again on a crease from the same corner, so the head points forward. Glue the layers together.

Off across the desert!

Draw a sleepy eye, a nostril and a mouth on each side, and colour the end of the tail dark for its tuft. Stand it on its long legs.

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