Follow these instructions to make an origami blinking eye.
Difficulty: Easy
Need another eye that you can wave around with and requires both hands to blink and never needs glasses or contacts to see clearly?
Well, you can learn how to make one in a blink of an eye because it’s that easy to make. Okay, maybe two blinks if you blink really slowly.
Step 1: Start with a square piece of origami paper with color side down. If you don’t have origami paper, follow instructions on how to make origami paper with regular rectangular paper.
Step 2: Fold the paper in half by folding the left corner to the right, then unfold.
Step 3: Fold the paper in half again by folding the bottom corner to the top, then unfold again.
Step 4: Fold the top and bottom corners to the center.
Step 5: Fold the top and bottom edges to the center.
Step 6: Unfold everything.
Step 7: Fold the top and bottom corners in at the first crease.
Step 8: Fold in the top and bottom edges at the next crease.
Step 9: Draw in the eyeball.
Step 10: Fold in the top and bottom edges to the center.
Step 11: Turn the paper over.
Step 12: Fold the left and right corners to the center.
Step 13: Fold in the top left corner creasing from the top middle to the left middle, then unfold.
Step 14: Now fold the top right corner in like step 13, then unfold.
Step 15: Fold in both bottom left and right corners like the top corners, then unfold.
Step 16: With your finger and thumb, hold the top and bottom corners together. Do this for both sides.
Step 17: Turn the figure over and hold both sides. Pull apart to blink the eye and push in to open the eye.
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