How to Make a Pop-Up Dancing Girl Spinner

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now I'll show you how to make this cute dancing girls spinning paper top. It's really cute. It looks like a bunch of girls in a circle singing happy birthday to you. So what you'll need for this is a 6 inch square of paper and then another smaller piece. Maybe a two inch square to make the little cake in the middle. And this is almost like making a snowflake. We're going to do a 6 folded snowflake. So start by folding your paper in half and creasing it down the center. And then you want to fold it in thirds. Which is a little tricky to get them even. And I'm going to fold one section in the front and one in the back. So it's a regular snowflake fold. And you fold it like that. Then you're going to trim the bottom in a circle like that, a little bit of a curve. And just check to make sure it's even so that when you open it up you have a little circle and that's the 3 folds, like that. Kind of in a zig zag. Okay. Now we're going to cut some little girls. So you need to, you're going to do a half of a little girl. You can either trace it out or you can just cut it like this. Make the head and then the straight line for the arm and come back to the edge and then make a little curve for a skirt and come back down. And right here you just want to make a little straight cut like that. So that's what the cut looks like. Then you're going to repeat that on the other side like so. A half of a head, okay. Come out straight to make a little arm and down. Curve out for a skirt. Come straight back in and then straight now for the feet. Okay. Now we're going to carefully open up like this. You just want to carefully open it up so you don't rip any of the little girls. Open it like so. And you want to keep the little bit of a fold there because that's what's going to make it spin in the end. It has to be a little bit pointed in the middle."