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Paper Crab Craft – Easy Origami

Paper Crab Craft - Easy Origami - Tea Time Monkeys

Try out some easy origami with your kids with this fun paper crab craft! There are lots of ways to decorate it and it’s especially nice to do as a painting activity. I’ve provided the folding instructions as a PDF file available to download for free at the end of the post. Younger children will probably need some help with steps 4 – 6.

This is a lovely craft to do as part of a marine life or beach theme. Check out some of our other sea animals resources at the end of the post!


Supplies

  • White or coloured paper
  • Watercolour paints, crayons, coloured pencils or pens
  • Optional: Stickers and googly eyes


How to make the easy origami paper crab:

1. Cut a square of paper about 21cm x 21cm. An easy way to make a square from a piece of A4 or letter paper is to fold one corner down and line it up to the opposite side. Mark where the paper makes the line across and cut.

Paper Crab Craft - Easy Origami - Tea Time Monkeys

2. Paint or draw designs on the paper. Make sure the paper is dry before folding – watercolour paints will dry fastest.

Paper Crab Craft - Easy Origami - Tea Time Monkeys

3. Place the paper with the undecorated side face up. Take corner A to corner C and make a fold. Open up the paper, then take corner B to corner D and make another fold. Open up the paper again.

Easy origami paper crab step 1 - Tea Time Monkeys

4. Take corner A to corner D, making sure the paper folds inside. Do the same with corners B and C. You should end up with a triangle shape, with folds inside like this:

Easy origami paper crab step 2 - Tea Time Monkeys

5. Take corner C and fold down towards the inside of the triangle.

Easy origami paper crab step 3 - Tea Time Monkeys


6. Do the same with corner D.

Easy origami paper crab step 4 - Tea Time Monkeys

7. Your paper should look like this:

Easy origami paper crab step 5 - Tea Time Monkeys

8. Turn the paper over. Take corner A and fold up as shown in the diagram below.

Easy origami paper crab step 6 - Tea Time Monkeys

9. Do the same with corner B.

Easy origami paper crab step 7 - Tea Time Monkeys

10. Fold up the point at the bottom of the crab.

Easy origami paper crab step 8 - Tea Time Monkeys


11. Turn over, and draw or stick on some eyes. If you want, you can decorate the crab shell more with stickers or sticky gems!

Easy origami paper crab step 9 - Tea Time Monkeys

Paper Crab Craft - Easy Origami - Tea Time Monkeys



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More SEA & BEACH related resources:


Paper Octopus Craft

Easy Paper Octopus Craft

Snapping Shark Craft - Tea Time Monkeys

Snapping Shark Craft


Sea Animals Word Puzzles - Free Printable - Tea Time Monkeys

Sea Animals Worksheets and Word Puzzles

Find My Home! Animal Sorting game - Tea Time Monkeys

Animal Sorting Game – FIND MY HOME!




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