How to Make a Pop-Up Cootie Catcher: Part 2

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Karen for Expert Village. So, the first thing we'll do when we have our square paper is, we'll fold it on the diagonal. So, on the diagonal you bring your two corners together exactly, and if you hold those corners down and then just push your hand to crease the edge, open it up and then match the opposite corner so we'll have another diagonal. And again, you want to match those corners as exact as possible and then just sort of rub your hand down and making sure that it?s folded exactly on both corners. Next we're going to open it up and we're going to be folding all the corners into the center. So take each corner and put it exactly in the center as you possibly can, making sure that the crease follows and continues up like this. Rotate it and do the same thing, putting the corner into the center and creasing on the bottom edge. Rotate it, put the corner to the center. You want to make sure this is coming out even and that the corners look good and matched, and then again you'll bring that last corner up to the center and crease all around. Now we have something that looks like this with all the corners creased up. We're going to turn it over so that we have the flat side, and we're going to repeat the same process again, taking each corner and bringing it to the center. And you bring that to the center and crease it well and rotate it, bring the corner to the center again. Hold that corner down while you do your creasing so you know it'll stay in place, and rotate it around. This is a really simple paper folding craft to do and you can make some fun little toys out of it to send to family and friends. Okay. So now this is what your paper looks like. On this side, you have some flaps and on this side you have points. And now we're going to take it and fold it into quarters. So, on the point side, we're going to fold it in half and crease that and open it up, rotate it once and again fold it in half. This will just get a good crease where you want it, and it's done now. All we need to do is slip our hands under the flaps like this, and we have our fold."