How to Make Paper Boats
Paper boats are a simple craft project for kids. Since they require only a sheet of standard printer paper, you can make them almost anywhere. Young children that cannot make the boats themselves will still enjoy decorating and floating them in a sink, bathtub, or puddle.
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Instructions
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Fold the paper in half, top to bottom, and make a sharp crease.
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Fold the paper again, this time left to right. Re-open only this fold. The paper should now be folded in half from top to bottom but with a crease down the center.
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Using the center crease as a guide, fold the top corners down, leaving about an inch at the bottom of the paper. The corner folds should meet in the center.
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Fold the top layer of the strip at the bottom of the paper up, to cover the bottom of the triangles that were created when you folded the corners down.
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Turn the paper over and fold up the other bottom strip in the same way.
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Tuck the edges of the two bottom strips in. Your paper should now look like a large triangle.
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Fold the upper inch of the triangle's tip downwards, creasing sharply, then unfold the tip.
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Turn the paper over, and fold the tip down and back up again. Now you should have a large triangle with a crease marking a smaller triangle at the top of the paper.
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Turn the paper so that the tip faces downward, and open the wider part of the triangle. It should now look like a triangular bowl with the tip at the bottom.
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While holding the "bowl" open, push the tip upward from the bottom. This will form the bottom of the boat.
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Place the boat on the surface of water, and blow on it to make it "sail."
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Tips & Warnings
If you stop at Step 6 and open up the bottom of the triangle, you will have a doll-sized hat.
You can glue a toothpick and small scrap of cloth onto the boat to make a tiny flag.
