How to Make a Cube Using Paper

Folding a simple piece of paper into some interesting shapes is an easy way to pass time when you are bored, amaze your friends with a hidden talent and make the notes you write to your friends more unique. One of the many shapes that you can fold a simple piece of paper into is a cube. If you would like to know how to fold a piece of paper into a cube then follow these steps.

Things You'll Need

• Sheet of paper

Instructions

1. Fold the upper left hand corner of your paper to the right edge of your paper diagonally. If the paper isn't already square, then cut off the remaining rectangle of paper that appears at the bottom of this fold. If the paper is already square, then your upper left hand corner should meet up with your lower right hand corner.

2. Unfold the fold from the previous step. You should have a crease extending from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand corner.

3. Fold diagonally the upper right hand corner down to the lower left hand corner and then unfold this fold. You should now have a crease connecting those two corners.

4. Fold your paper in half by bringing the right hand edge to meet the left hand edge around the back, or flip your paper over before making this fold and then unfold the fold and flip the paper back over.

5. Tighten the creases that you just made in the previous step together towards the center and flatten your piece of paper. This should leave you with a triangle shape.

6. Fold the bottom corners of the top triangle up to the center point of the triangle. This should form a diamond made of two smaller triangles in the center of a larger triangle.

7. Fold the side points of your diamond into the line that runs down the center of the diamond.

8. Fold the two points at the top of your diamond down so that they tuck into the slots created by the folds that you made in the previous step.

9. Repeat Steps 6,7 and 8 on the other side of your piece of paper.

10. Blow into the hole that you will find in one end of your paper to inflate your cube.

11. Finish the cube by carefully creasing all of the edges, making them less rounded.