How to Make a Paper Cup from a Sheet of Printer Paper

Have you ever gone over to the water cooler only to see that you are out of cups? Have you been forced to glance around to make sure no one is watching before you put your mouth on the nozzle and start slurping? Well, your problems are now over. With just a single sheet of printer paper, you can now make a single-use watertight drinking cup. When the cups run out at the office, you will be the go-to guy that everyone turns to to save their parched throats and will thus able to increase your powerbase at the office until that day you finally take over.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Piece of printer paper.

1. An ordinary piece of printer paper... about to be transformed into a paper cup. Take a single sheet of printer paper and lay it flat on the table. Use a clean piece of paper, unless you have developed a fondness for the taste of toner, in which case, a printed-on piece of paper may be used.
2. With this simple fold, you have begun your training as a Master Cupmaker Fold one corner of the paper over to look like the picture below.
3. This is the hardest step - it involves a cut. Cut off the rectangle of paper that is on the right leaving you with a perfectly square piece of paper folded in half along the diagonal.
4. Fold one of the corners up as the picture indicates.
5. Fold the opposite corner up just like in Step 4.
6. At this point, you will be folding the sides of the cup down. Take one piece of the two flaps and fold it down.
7. Then, fold the other flap down on the other side of the cup. Now, open your cup up and fill it with water. Drink and enjoy the refreshing feeling of a job well done. Go home early - you have earned it.

Tips & Warnings

• You can cut this strip of paper off any of three ways. 1) with scissors 2) the "tear along a straight edge or table corner" method or 3) using the "fold, lick and tear" method (note - the edge you lick is not part of the drinking edge, so your friends should not be disgusted using a cup you made with this method.
• Although I prefer the "fold, lick and tear" method, paper cuts are an occupational risk.