How to Make a Origami Boat that really Floats

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tells us that the art of origami was derived toperfect piece of square paper which you have to
build concrete shapes such as cranes or boats.use to make the paper boat.
The origami boat is regarded as papaer folding for5) Next, you fold the bottom right corner of the
pure enjoyment, otherwise known as play origami.paper, up to the top left end and make another
This origami sailboat is an intermediate leveltriangle. Unfold this triangle to create N "X" shaped
project that only appears to be more advanced.crease on the square sheet of paper.
Yes, the boat will really float, but as the paper6) Then fold each corner of the square to it's
gets saturated with water, it will sink and becenter and then fold each tip to it's baseline. 7)
ruined. This can actually start a neat discussionRepeat this with each corner tip and then tuck
about what made the boat float to begin with andeach corner under the four triangles.
then what made it sink.8) Fold this paper in half and then each half back
To start with how to make a paper boat, first ofto it's top side. The paper now resembles a
all you will need to find a rectangular piece ofrectangle with two triangular flips at the top
paper and then follow the steps given below.edges.