How to Cut a Paper Airplane to Make a Cross
You can fold a simple sheet of paper to create four different shapes. While you start out folding a familiar paper airplane, you can then cut or tear it in a manner that will turn it into first a recognizable jet shape, then a rocket shape, and finally a cross shape. This fun little project delights children and they can easily learn to do it themselves.
Instructions
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Fold the top third of the paper down. Fold the paper in half from left to right. Crease and unfold, but leave the top third folded down.
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Fold the top left corner down to the middle crease you made in the previous step. It should come close to or touch the edge of the flap you folded down. Repeat for the top right corner. Now you have a house-shaped model.
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Fold again from left to right. Fold two thirds of the top layer back to the left so that it sticks up perpendicularly to the model. This is one of the wings of the airplane. Repeat for the other layer in the other direction. Your paper airplane is complete.
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Turn the airplane horizontally as if you were going to throw it. Cut the wings off the paper airplane along the horizontal side so that it looks like the profile of a jet plane. Use the paper airplane's nose as the jet's nose. At the other end of the paper, angle the cut upward slightly to make it look like a jet's tail fin.
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Open the jet along the fold and turn it so that the nose points upward. At this point it should look like a space shuttle or rocket ship.
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Open the smaller folds behind the top portion and it should look like a cross.
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Tips & Warnings
The further from the bottom you make the cut in Step 4, the thicker the final cross shape will be.
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