How to fold an origami walrus
A chunky kite body folded in half. Snip the head round, split the tail into big back flippers, then glue on two white tusks and a front flipper.
You need: A 15 cm square and a 4 cm square, brown on one side, a 1.6 × 8 cm strip of ivory paper, scissors, glue and a pen. Hard, 14 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 to lie along the middle crease.
- Fold in half. Fold the bottom half behind along the middle crease. The fold is the belly, the blunt face points left.
- Round the head. Snip the top front corner off in four short cuts, from the face up over the brow, so the head and shoulders are round.
- Snip the tail. Cut along the belly fold from the tail point, about 7 cm in, so the tail splits into a front and a back layer.
- Fan the flippers. Fold the front layer of the tail up at a slant from the end of the cut. Fold the back layer up behind just a little, so the flippers fan apart.
- The tusks. Set the walrus aside. Take the ivory strip, standing upright.
- Tusks: fold in half. Fold the strip in half the long way, so it's a thin stick.
- Tusks: fold a V. Fold the top half down across a level crease through the middle, so the two halves hang side by side in a narrow V.
- Tusks: point the tips. Cut each tip on a slant to a point.
- The front flipper. Set the tusks aside. Take the 4 cm brown square, white side up, turned like a diamond.
- Flipper: fold in half. Fold the top corner down onto the bottom corner to make a brown triangle.
- Glue it together. Glue the point of the tusks' V behind the bottom of the snout so they hang down. Glue the flipper's long edge behind the chest.
Big tusks!
Draw a small eye, dots on the fat muzzle and a fringe of whiskers.