How to Make a Paper Propeller

Video Transcript

"In this clip, we're going to make a paper propeller. For this clip we need a square of card, some scissors, a felt tip pen, a pencil and a pin. So we need a square of card. Put it on the table and fold the opposite corners to the opposite corner, diagonally. So we make it into a triangle. Corner to corner, put it down. Make sure the corners are matching. Run your finger back, and then backwards and forwards along the line. Open it up, and do it with this corner to that corner. Corner to corner. Make sure it's lined up. Run your finger along, and backwards and forwards. So now we've got four lines on the card. Now we need the scissors. And we start cutting at one corner, and we cut, and we chop, and then we stop before we reach the middle. Same with this one. We chop, and we chop, and then we stop before we reach the middle. Chop, chop, and stop. Chop, chop, and stop. Now then, this is the strange bit. One of those corners, it looks like four triangles, so get one corner of the first triangle and fold it over the central place. The next corner of the next triangle, fold it over the central place. The next corner of the next triangle, and fold it over the central place. And the last corner of the next triangle, and it goes over the central place. That's when you need your pin. Keeping all of those corners together, now put that right through the central place. Right through the middle, so it should catch all of those corners and attach them to the central place. Now this is a fiddly bit that you better have a grown-up to help you with, because I'm going to push that pin into the soft wood of the pencil. Push it in. Not too tight, not too hard. And let's see if it works. It's a propeller, it goes round with just blow...blowing. Just like a wind machine. Round and round it goes. So that's a quick way of making a paper propeller."