EASY · TRADITIONAL MODEL
Simple whale
A traditional model: mark the diagonal, make a kite base, fold the blunt tip, fold everything in half and turn the tail up. All you need is a square sheet; no scissors.
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The steps, in words
Get your paper ready.
Place a square sheet as a diamond: one corner up, one down, one on the left and one on the right. If it has a coloured side, keep it face down.
The left corner will be the head and the right corner the tail.
Fold the diamond in half, top to bottom.
Bring the top corner down onto the bottom corner. The crease runs horizontally, from the left corner to the right corner.
Line the corners up carefully before pressing the crease.
Unfold.
Open it again. A horizontal mark is left from corner to corner: it is the guide for the next folds.
Run a fingernail along the mark so it shows clearly.
Bring the top right edge to the mark.
Fold the top right flap: the edge that runs down from the top corner to the right corner lies along the mark. The crease starts at the right corner.
Check that the edge lies exactly on the mark, without going past it.
Bring the bottom right edge to the mark.
Do the same underneath: the edge that runs from the bottom corner to the right corner lies along the mark. The two edges meet on the mark and you have a kite shape, with the thin point on the right.
Compare both sides: the flaps should be the same.
Fold the wide left tip towards the centre.
Fold the left tip a little way to the right, over the kite. The crease is vertical and the tip does not reach the flaps. This will be the rounded head.
Keep the fold small: the more you fold, the shorter the head gets.
Fold the whale in half, backwards.
Fold along the horizontal mark and take the bottom half backwards, behind the top half. This is a mountain fold: the paper moves away from you. The crease is at the bottom and the thin point is on the right.
It is a mountain fold, so you do not need to turn the model over.
Crease the tail.
Fold the thin point on the right upwards, with all the layers together. The crease starts on the bottom edge and rises diagonally to the top edge. Crease it well: it is a guide for the next step.
Try a shorter or longer tail, depending on how you want your whale.
Unfold the tail.
Fold the point back down. The diagonal crease you just made stays on the paper.
The crease helps the next fold land in exactly the same place.
Reverse the tail inside and up.
Open the two layers of the body slightly and push the bottom fold of the point upwards along the crease, so the tail rises tucked between the two halves. Flatten it again. This is an inside reverse fold: the tail sits between the layers, not in front of them.
If it is hard, open the body a little more and push the tail up from below with a finger.
Your whale is ready.
The drawing shows the whale from the side: the head on the left, the flat body resting on the bottom crease and the tail rising on the right.
If you like, draw an eye near the head.