How to Make a Flapping Paper Airplane

Steps

1. Start with a sheet of paper.
   
   
2. Fold diagonally in order to create a square.
   
   
3. Cut or tear off the excess paper.
   
   
4. Now you have a square.
   
   
5. Create creases along the diagonals.
   
   
6. Push in the sides.
   
   
7. Collapse to form a triangle.
   
   
   
   
8. Unfold the left side.
   
   
9. Fold the side down.
   
   
   
   
10. Unfold the flap you just folded on step nine, then fold a new, smaller flap.
    
    
11. Refold along flap created in step nine.
    
    
12. Flip the small flap up.
    
    
13. Repeat steps 9-12 on opposite side.
    
    
14. Turn the flapper right side up.
    
    
15. Now, to fold the front end...
    
    
16. Place a small coin into one of the two slots at the front of the plane.
    
    
17. Fold the right flap over the two slots (one of which has a penny/small coin in it) and tuck inside.
    
    
18. Fold other flap over previous flaps.
    
    
19. Tape flap to plane.
    
    
20. To fly the flapper, hold it in front and throw hard for optimal flapping.
    
    

[edit] Tips

• You can secure your folds by going over them with a ruler, or a coin.
• A4-sized paper is European/Australian paper size - it is slightly longer and thinner than US/Canadian letter size but this should not matter since the paper used is at the first step cut into a perfect square.

Warnings

• As always, when working with paper be careful about paper cuts.
• Don't throw the airplane at people or animals. It can damage someone's eyes.

Things You'll Need

• 1 sheet of paper
• 1 penny
• tape