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How to fold an origami scissors

Fold a red strip small and snip it twice: it opens into two rings with holes for the fingers. Two grey strips cut to a point cross over them as the blades.

You need: A 10 × 5 cm red strip, two 2 × 15 cm grey strips, scissors and a glue stick. Medium, 13 steps, about 12 minutes.

Steps

  1. Handles: fold in half. Start with the red strip, long side across. Fold the right half over onto the left half.
  2. Handles: in half again. Fold the top half down onto the bottom half.
  3. Handles: and again. Fold the left half over onto the right half. Now it is a small square, many layers thick.
  4. Handles: two snips. Snip off the top-left corner, where all the folds meet, for the finger holes. Snip off the bottom-right corner to round the rings.
  5. Handles: open. Unfold the last fold.
  6. Handles: open again. Unfold the next fold.
  7. Handles: open flat. Open it out flat: two red rings side by side, each with a hole.
  8. Blade: new strip. Set the handles aside. Take a grey strip, standing up tall.
  9. Blade: sharp point. Cut off the top-left corner on a long slant, from the top-right corner down the left edge. The top is a sharp blade point.
  10. Second blade. Set it aside. Take the other grey strip, standing up tall.
  11. Second blade: point. This time cut off the top-right corner on the same long slant, from the top-left corner.
  12. Glue it together. Cross the first blade over the second, a little way up from their bottoms. Glue the rings behind, below the cross.
  13. Stand it up. Turn the scissors so the handles are straight at the bottom.

Snip snip!

Draw a dot where the blades cross for the screw. Paper scissors are the only kind that never need sharpening.

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