How to fold an origami shark dive
A kite with a white belly folded in half. Snip and swing up a tall fin, point the snout, outside-reverse-fold the tail up, split it into a crescent and dive.
You need: 1 square sheet (15 cm), grey on one side and white on the other, scissors and a black pen. Hard, 12 steps, about 25 minutes.
Steps
- Crease the middle. White side up, fold the top corner down to the bottom corner, crease, and unfold.
- Fold in the head. Fold the left corner in to the middle of the paper.
- Make a kite. Fold the two right-hand edges in toward the middle crease, stopping short so a white wedge shows down the middle.
- Fold in half. Fold the bottom half behind along the middle crease. The fold is the white belly, the head points left.
- Fold the back down. Fold the top of the back down behind through all layers on a level crease 3.5 cm above the belly.
- Snip the fin free. Snip along the new fold from the back tip of the hidden strip forward, about 4 cm, to the middle of the body.
- Swing up the fin. Fold the snipped end of the strip up behind on a slant from the end of the snip, so it stands tall above the back: the fin.
- Point the snout. Fold the top front corner of the head behind on a long slant, then the chin corner, so the snout comes to a point.
- Lift the tail. Fold the tail up through all layers on a crease from 8.5 cm before its tip, slanting up toward the tip, so the tail rises.
- Snip the tail. Snip 3 cm along the tail's folded edge from the tip, so its front and back layers come apart.
- Spread the tail. Fold the front tip down and back from the end of the snip. The back tip stays up, so the tail is a crescent.
- Dive!. Tip the shark nose-down so it dives.
Dive, dive!
Draw a small eye behind the snout and three gill lines.