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How to fold an origami popcorn

Fold the sides of a red square in to make a striped box. Snip the top of a folded yellow sheet into puffs and tuck it behind the box.

You need: 1 square sheet, red on one side, a smaller pale yellow sheet, and scissors. Medium, 10 steps, about 8 minutes.

Steps

  1. Stripes. Box first. White side up, fold the left and right edges in, leaving a white stripe down the middle between two red ones.
  2. Top behind. Fold the top edge behind, about a third of the way down.
  3. Taper the box. Fold a thin slice off each side behind, wide at the bottom and nothing at the top, so the box gets narrower downwards.
  4. Popcorn: new sheet. Set the box aside. Take the pale yellow paper, a bit wider than the box and much less tall, long side across.
  5. In half. Fold the right edge over to the left edge.
  6. In half again. Fold the left edge over to the right edge. Now it's a narrow stack.
  7. Round the top. Snip both top corners of the stack round, through all the layers. Snip a little off both bottom corners too.
  8. Open once. Unfold the last fold.
  9. Open it all. Unfold the first fold too. The top edge is a row of popcorn puffs!
  10. Fill the box. Glue the box over the popcorn, so the puffs pop out over the top.

Movie night!

Make a box for everyone on the sofa, and try blue or green stripes for a different cinema.

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