How to Make a Paper Rocket

Video Transcript

"So you want to play around with spaceships? Hi, my name is Robert Segundo, and today I'm going to teach you how to make a rocket moon lander from a piece of paper. That's what it's going to look like when it's done. What we're going to do is, we're going to take our water bomb base, if you don't know how to do a water bomb base, look it up. It's just a simple, it's one of the simple Origami bases, traditional bases. What we're going to do here is, is we're just going to do like we're folding a water bomb, and just bring our points up to the center, like so. Do it on all four sides. Then after you've done that, what you're going to do, is you're going to take one of the legs that you've brought up. You're going to open it up, going to squash fold it, like so. And then you're going to take this little square that you have made here, and you're going to leaf fold that. If you don't know what a leaf fold is, look it up. It's pretty easy. There's some videos out there of me showing exactly how this is done, so check me out again. And there you go. That's basically your petal fold, and what it's going to look like when you're done with it. You're going to do that now to all four side, and to save time, I've already got that done here. Now what we're going to do is we're going to take....let's get this model out of the way, here...we're going to take this guy, and we're going to open the side up. We're going to fold him over, to the inside, like so, on both sides. Close it back. Just go ahead and let that flop open, because that's the next step, anyway. Fold this over. Fold this side over, as well. And there we go. Go ahead and open that leg up. Flip it over, open both of those legs up. Now what we're going to do is open it back up to the middle again, and then you just take our bottom, we're going to pull it up, and just kind of squash fold this piece that comes up as we do that. Let's do that again. Open it up, there you go. If you're not careful you'll rip your paper like I did here. And....there you go. Just fold it back over so it stays. This side up. Same thing here. And, I don't care because my paper's just ripping all over the place now. Then what you're going to do is you're going to kind of take it and open it up, and you're just going to take these points here, going to fold them down on the inside, like so. You're going to have to play around with it a little bit as you're doing that to kind of get everything to stay and to hold, and eventually your model will look just like that, with a little help. So, play around with it, have fun, and enjoy."