How to fold an origami carp streamer

A traditional Japanese fold: a long sheet folds into a carp with a white mouth band, a slimmer tail end and a forked tail, ready to fly on a stick.

You need: 1 sheet of A4 or Letter paper, red or blue on one side, scissors and a black pen. Medium, 8 steps, about 8 minutes.

Steps

Mouth band. Coloured side up, long side across. Fold the right short edge over by 2 cm. This white band will be the carp's open mouth.
Turn it over. Flip it over, so the band is underneath on the left.
Fold in half. Fold the top edge down to the bottom edge and crease well.
Open it. Open it again, so the crease runs across the middle.
Edges to the middle. Fold the top and bottom edges in to meet at the middle crease. The white band now shows at the left end.
Slim the tail end. Fold the top and bottom edges a little behind on a slant: nothing at the mouth, 1.5 cm at the right end.
Snip the tail. Cut along the middle from the right end, about 6 cm in.
Fork the tail. Fold the inner edge of each tail half behind, creasing from the end of the cut to the outer corner. The tail spreads into a V.

Draw a big round eye behind the white mouth and a few scales. Tape it to a stick and run, so it flies in the wind.

Tape the head end to a straw or a thin stick.
Hold it up in the wind or run with it, so the carp swims through the air.
Fold a big one for each grown-up and a small one for each child, like families do in Japan.