Making paper crafts is a fun and interesting activity for the children and adults alike. It ranges from the simple to the intricate ones with sail boat being one of the popular ones. The boat, thus made, looks like the real one. The success in making the craft depends upon the way you fold the paper. If you want to know how to make a paper boat, this article is the right for you. Go through the instructions given in the lines below and learn how you can fold a boat to make it float in water.
Instructions For Making A Paper Sail Boat
- Take a medium sized paper, about 8x11 inches in size.
- Bring the bottom right-corner of the paper towards its top-left corner and fold it there. This will given the paper the shape of a triangle.
- Tear off the excess paper from the 'triangle'.
- Unfold the triangle. It will now look like a square piece of paper.
- Now, bring the bottom right-corner of the paper triangle towards its top-left and fold it there.
- After unfolding the paper again, you will notice an "X" mark formed in it.
- Locate the "center" of the paper, where the marks meet.
- Bring all the corners of the square to the center of the paper and fold them.
- Locate the baseline of the corners of the squares and fold each tip in that position.
- Repeat the above step with each corner tip.
- Fold each of the corners underneath the paper.
- After folding the paper in half, bring each half to the top side.
- Repeat the above step so that the paper will look like a rectangle.
- Fold the corners of the rectangle downwards.
- Make three folds, each on both the sides of the rectangle.
- Your paper boat is almost done. Now, hold it and pull the two side of the paper apart, to unfold the inner side of the boat. Give the center a push through the opposite side, so that it remains steady.
- Spread the side covers of the boat.
