Origami: How to fold a Crocodile

Have you seen a crocodile before?

Its special features are big mouth and round big eyes

with jagged sharp teeth when it opens its mouth.

It looks so powerful when it opens its big mouth to eat its predators

after it was hiding in the water!★

Let’s fold such a crocodile together!♪

How to fold a Crocodile Ver.1

This one will be rather cute instead of being scary!♥

Let’s make various kinds of crocodiles with different expressions!★

1. Fold it in half along the dotted line to make a crease.

2. Fold both sides to the middle along the dotted lines.

3. Fold the tip down along the dotted line.

4. Fold it in half along the dotted line.

5. Fold it along the dotted line.

6. Open it from the arrow and fold it as the picture below.

7. Make sure the part with a red circle overlaps.

8. Draw a face and the patterns and it’s done!

The point when we draw its face is where we put its nose and eyes.

You’d better put them apart.

Its short legs are one of the features too!★

How to fold a Crocodile Ver.2

This is a whole body of the crocodile.

A long torso, a big tail and an opened mouth make it look like a real one!★

1. Fold it in half along the dotted line to make a crease.

2. Fold both sides to the middle along the dotted lines.

3. Fold it in half along the dotted line to make a crease.

4. Fold both sides to the middle along the dotted line.

5. Fold each corner along the dotted lines.

6. Open it from the arrow and fold it.

7. Do the same things for the other three parts too.

8. Turn it over.

9. Fold each corner along the dotted line.

10. Fold each corner along the dotted lines.

11. Turn it over again.

12. Cut it along the red line with scissors.

13. Fold it down along the dotted line.

14. Fold each corner along the dotted lines. They will be legs.

15. Fold it in half along the dotted line. (a mountain fold)

16. Fold the tail part along the dotted line and make a crease.

Fold it up, using the crease as the picture No. 17.

17. Draw a face and…

18. it’s done!

How was it?

They (Ver.1 and Ver.2) are both crocodiles but they look very different, right?♪

It might be a good idea if you make a zoo or a jungle, folding many crocodiles!★

【Translated by　 Kana Toda PIERCE】