How to Make an Origami Turtle

Video Transcript

"There are many amphibians you can make with origami and today I'm going to show you how to make one special one. My name is Robert Segundo and I'm going to show you how to make a turtle. If you look down here you can see I have a nice square piece of paper and what I'm going to do is I'm just going to fold it in half, like so, this is a sheet bend or a shaw bend, however you want to look at it. What I'm going to do is I'm going to take these corner pieces and I'm going to fold them up, like so, and do the point, do both sides, there we go. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take and fold this up, fold them both up like that. These are going to be the front legs so what we're going to do is we're going to take, just kind of fold those out, something like a ninety degree angle or a forty five degree angle towards the diamond shaped edge. Now what we're going to do, which is really going to make this not really a origami much, that's why I'm just going to take, I'm going to cut, because cutting is a no, no in origami, I'm just going to take and kind of split up the center, like so, just so I can create these back legs. So, now that the back legs are created I'm going to do kind of the same thing I did with the front legs and just kind of fold them out until they stick out a little bit. Now, I'm going to take this corner piece here and I'm going to fold and I'm going to kind of give it a little bit of an angle so it kind of angles towards the back of the turtle, just a little bit. I'll bring this one up the same way, fold his legs out, like so. Now, for the head what I'm going to do is I'm just going to fold this down and then just fold it up just a little bit, make him look like he's peeking out of his shell. We'll turn it over, flatten it out a little bit, don't worry he'll spring back up, a little bit too much. Lets push his head back, there we go. And, there you have it, your origami turtle, play around with it, have fun and enjoy."