How to Make an Origami Swan

Video Transcript

"There are many birds that can be made with Origami, and today I'm going to teach you how to make a special one. My name is Robert Segundo, and I'm going to teach you how to make the swan. If we look down here on our table, you can see I have a nice, white piece of paper. It's already in a square shape. What I'm going to do is, I'm gonna, basic, I'm going to start this one off in the....with this kite base. Like so. There we go. After we have our kite base, what we're going to do is basically just take it and fold it over, like so. Now what we want to do is, this point's going to be our head, so what we want to do is we want to open this up, and we want to reverse fold it down, like, somewhere around, like so. So what I'm going to do is, I'm just going to crease it like that, then I'll open......a...get it to work with me here. Reverse fold it down, something like that. We want to make sure the head is really close, like this, and it sticks down way further than the body does. So what we're going to do is we're going to open it up. Just going to go ahead and fold this in, like so, on both sides. There we go. Now what we're going to do is, we're going to take it and reverse fold it back up. And it's going to stop, it's going to be limited by how far we go up, so, you'll know exactly how far you should go up with it, like so. Here it is, like that. What we're going to do is, we're going to take, you're going to fold the tail down. So we're going to open this up, just basically, fold the point in to this point here. Close it off. There you go. You see we got the body started really well. Now what we're going to do is we're going to take the tail, since we already folded it down, and we're going to fold it right back up again. Like so. It's going to take a bit of working with to get it. You just want to kind of do it straight up to where it kind of emulates what's going on here with the....the body. And now we're going to take the wings, fold them up as far as they'll go. Like so. Flip it over. Do the other side, like so. Now that this is all complete, all you really gotta do is work on the head, and we'll just take...right now we'll just do a simple fold, like so. There you have it, your Origami swan. Play around with it, have fun, and enjoy."