Folding a piece of paper and getting a shape is an interesting activity for people of any age group. The result is complex or simple but very fun crafts. It will be interesting for children to fold the jumping frog. In order for the height of her jump to be as large as possible, you need to carefully and painstakingly fold a square sheet of paper, which can be not only green, but also white, blue, etc.
Necessary materials
To fold the jumping frog, you need to prepare a sheet of paper. In addition, skillful hands are required. You can take a ruler and a simple pencil as auxiliary tools. They will come in handy in the process of work, since the exact lines will be the key to the frog's high jump. Scissors will also come in handy, because in the future there may be problems with a sheet of paper.
Create a paper frog
First of all, a sheet of paper is taken. If it is not square, then you should remove the extra centimeters. After that, the sheet is folded in half twice. Next, you need to unfold the last fold and leave the sheet folded into a rectangle. The second fold helped to create a line that began to divide the rectangle into two equal squares.
In the upper square, you need to bend and unbend the corners. Then the top half of the same square is folded. The next step is to start folding the sides of the figure. After that, the inner folds of the upper triangle must be straightened. Its corners must be bent upward. As a result, you should get two triangular petals.
Then you need to proceed to the bottom square, the base of which is bent in half upward. On the left and right sides of the workpiece, the edges are bent inward to the middle. This is done in such a way that there is no gap between them. Then you need to bend the lower part of the future frog in half. Then she unbends again.
Next, you need to straighten the lower part by pulling the corners of the workpiece from the inside. The lower part should look like a boat, the sides of which need to be spread and bent to the left and right down the sides of this figure.
Thanks to these actions, the lower petals should be in the form of triangles. They need to be deflected to the sides similarly to the upper ones. Next, the frog turns its back up. In this step, you need to create a jump device. The workpiece is bent in the middle in a zigzag pattern. This fold should act like a spring when pressed.
The frog is ready! To make it jump, you just need to press on the area of the hind legs. The height of the jump directly depends on how neatly the figure is folded. It should be borne in mind that you need to make a frog from thin, but not too loose paper. The size of the frog may vary. For example, from the size of a coin of 10 kopecks to the size of a box of matches.
