How to Create the Simplest Paper Airplane

Learning how to fold a paper airplane will bring you hours of fun. Master the most basic paper airplane design and experiment to determine how you can retrofit it to make it your own innovations.

Things You'll Need

• Paper
• Tape

Instructions

1. Lay a sheet of rectangular paper in front of you horizontally. Fold the left side of the paper to meet the right side and then unfold to make a vertical crease.

2. Fold the top-left corner down so it meets the crease in the center and do the same with the right corner, resulting in an arrow-shaped paper.

3. Take each corner and fold again, with both the left and right sides, resulting in a smaller arrow with two tails at the bottom, facing you.

4. Flip the paper over and fold it in half. You can now see the paper airplane taking shape and you should be able to identify the two wings.

5. Fold one wing in half again, so the center line in the wing runs along next to the axis of the paper airplane. Do this with both wings.

6. Apply a small piece of tape to the tail of the paper airplane if it doesn't want to hold it's shape.