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How to fold an origami easy orca

A long diamond with its top point folded out to the side as a tall fin. Fold it in half, lay it down and lift the tail. White pen adds the patches.

You need: 1 square sheet, 15 × 15 cm, black on one side, and a white pen. Easy, 7 steps, about 4 minutes.

Steps

  1. Crease the diagonal. White side up, like a diamond. Fold the left corner to the right corner, crease, and unfold.
  2. Make a kite. Fold the two lower edges in to lie along the centre crease.
  3. Long diamond. Fold the two upper edges in to the centre crease too, so both ends are long points.
  4. Fold out the fin. Fold the top point down and to the left on a slant, so its tip sticks out about 3 cm past the left side, just below the left corner.
  5. Fold in half. Fold the right half over onto the left half. The fin still pokes out at the side.
  6. Lay it down. Turn it so the fold is at the bottom, the fin points up and the long point aims left.
  7. Lift the tail. Fold the long point up on a slant, about 4.5 cm from its tip, so it flicks up as the tail.

Splash!

With a white pen, colour a small eye patch near the head and a white chin under it.

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