How to Make Paper Airplanes With Spinners on the Front

Make a cool paper plane with a propeller.

Paper airplanes are popular with adults as much as kids. It's the closet you can get to piloting a plane without schooling or a license, but still requires a little skill to be done right. These crafts are typically simple constructs, which the average person can do with ease. However, making a plane which actually flies with a propeller is a more challenging task. With some attention to detail and a couple of common items, you can make an impressive propeller paper plane.

Things You'll Need

• Sheet of paper
• Toothpick
• Glue
• Plastic toy airplane propeller

Instructions

1. Lay your sheet of paper horizontally on a hard surface, so the long side faces you.

2. Fold the upper left and right corners to meet at the middle of the page forming a triangle; crease the edges.

3. Fold the triangular tip to meet the bottom edge of the triangle; crease the edge. This creates three smaller triangles; two pointing up and one pointing down with the lower half of the page untouched thus far.

4. Fold the outer left and right edges inward approximately 1/2-inch, and crease the edges. The sheet takes the shape of the letter "A."

5. Fold the left side of the model over to the right. Line up the outer edges which are the wings. Crease the fold line making the center of the plane.

6. Fold each side wing down to 1-inch from the center line, or base, of the plane.

7. Fold the tip of each wing up half an inch. The wings are "V" shaped as you look at the model from the front.

8. Apply glue to a toothpick, and insert the majority of it into the front end at the base. Squeeze the paper to the toothpick allowing a few minutes for the glue to dry.

9. Slide the spinner onto the toothpick.

10. Pour a small amount of glue on a washable or throwaway surface.

11. Allow the glue to thicken from drying. Carefully dip the tip of the toothpick, with spinner in place, into the glue forming a small bead at the point preventing the spinner from sliding off.

Tips & Warnings

• Be careful with the glue, or you could make a mess of things.