How to Fold Origami Tumbling Toy

Video Transcript

"In this clip, I will show you how to make a tumbling toy. Now, there's a trick to this tumbling toy. You hold it like this, and you push it, and it tumbles around; however, if you hold it like this, and it you push it it doesn't tumble. This is a trick that you can play with your friends, because they will say how come it tumbles from one side, but not the other. And as we fold, you will discover why. This is a very simple model, and it is a model designed by Seiryo Takegawa. I hope I pronounced that right, and it can be found in the book, "Complete origami", by Eric Kenneway. So, starting with a sheet of paper, color side down, we are going to fold it in half, and then open it back up, and do covered folds. Fold the edges to the center, fold the top edge to the center, unfold; unfold the top edge, and for this corner we are going to fold it down. Fold the triangle down, so that the edge meets up with the crease that we just made, like this. The same thing on this side; fold the triangle down. Now we are going to do the same thing with this bottom edge, but this one; we are going to keep that covered fold, and then fold the triangle up, and fold this triangle up."