0007 ゼニガメ〔ポケモン折り紙〕ゼニガメの作り方/みるかなた

Basic Folding

1 Fold the bottom corner to meet the top corner.
2 Make a crease and return it to its original position.
3 Rotate the paper 90 degrees, fold the other pair of corners together, make a crease and return it to its original position.
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4 Rotate the paper 45 degrees and fold the bottom edge to line up with the top edge.
5 Make a crease and return it to its original position.
6 Rotate the paper 90 degrees and fold the other pair of edges together.
7 Hold the crease ▲ made in step 6 with your fingers and fold gently from both sides together.
8 Let the paper naturally fold along the creases to form the shape of 9.
9 A basic square is created.

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10 Change the top and bottom positions.
With the opening facing downwards, fold the bottom left and right edges to meet the crease in the middle.
11 Make a crease and return.
12 Fold the top at the point where the crease made in 11 intersects with the top left and right edges.
13 Make a crease and return.
14 While opening the front paper upwards, fold the left and right edges inward along the crease made in 11.
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17 Make creases on this side in the same way as 10 and 11.
18 Fold in the same way as 14, 15 and 16 to form 19 and 20.
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20 The basic fold is complete.

Squirtle’s head

1. Fold up to the 20th basic fold, then change the position of the paper. Fold the bottom paper upwards at the corner of the mountain at the back.
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4. Fold the bottom paper upwards at the corner of the mountain at the back.
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6. Fold the top left and right pieces of paper in an inside reverse fold, slightly below the top edge of the front paper, and tuck them between the front and back pieces.
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9. The Squirtle’s head is complete.

Squirtle’s shell

1. Fold the bottom edge to meet the top edge.
2. Make a crease and unfold.
3. Rotate the paper 90 degrees, fold the other pair of edges to meet, make a crease and unfold.
4. Fold all four corners towards the center along the creases.
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6. Fold all four corners towards the center along the creases.
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8. Fold each corner towards the center at about one-sixth of the way from the center of the edge (a little over 6 mm).
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10 Fold 6 mm below the top edge, make a crease, and unfold.
11 Open the top left and right sides of the paper.
12 Using the crease made in step 10, fold the center part A of the top edge first, then fold the left and right sides B.
13 Fold the other three sides in the same way as in steps 10, 11, and 12.
14 This will form an octagon with sides of a little over 25 mm.
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15 The Squirtle shell is complete.

Squirtle’s body

1. With the colored side of the paper facing inward, fold it to the shape of basic fold 20. First, create the parts that will become the arms and legs. Make cuts with scissors at the base of the front left and right pieces of paper.
2. Open only the left side of the top paper. Open both sides of the bottom paper.
3. Make a cut with scissors down to the base along the center fold of the front bottom piece of paper.
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7. Make cuts with scissors at the base of the front left and right pieces of paper.
8. Open only the right side of the top paper. Open both sides of the bottom paper.
9. Make a cut with scissors down to the base along the center fold of the front bottom piece of paper.
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12 Fold the rightmost piece of paper to the left.
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14 Return the paper that was folded to the left in step 12 to the right.
15 Make the legs.
16 Fold the tip of the paper inwards using a reverse fold and tuck it between the sheets of paper.
17 Make the arms.
◆Make sure you don’t mix up the positions of the legs and arms. If you do it the other way around, you won’t be able to make the tail, so fold the legs to the white side of the paper and the arms to the colored side.
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19 Fold the tip of the paper inwards using a reverse fold and tuck it between the sheets of paper.
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22 Fold the tip of the paper inwards using a reverse fold and tuck it between the sheets of paper.
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25 Fold the tip of the paper in the middle and tuck it between the layers of paper.
26 The arms and legs are complete. Fold the right piece of paper to the left.
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28 Fold the right piece of paper to the left.
29 Make the tail. Fold the right corner B to the left along the line connecting the crease of the arm and the position C where the leg is sticking out.
30 Make a firm crease and unfold.
31 Fold the top piece of paper downwards at the base.
32 Fold the front piece of paper diagonally to the left along the line AE connecting point A (folded in 30) and point E (approximately 28 mm below the left corner D).
33 While holding down ▲ with your left thumb, open the arrowed section C with your right thumb and fold the front piece of paper diagonally to the left.
34 While folding the front piece of paper to the left, open the arrowed section B with your right index finger and fold the mountain folded in 30.
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36 Fold the tip of the paper at a right angle, about 15 mm from the tip of the tail, along the bottom edge.
37 Fold the corner that is now at a right angle slightly. The tail is complete.
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39 Fold the top of the paper to match the length of the top and bottom of the shell.
40 Attach double-sided tape to the ● position and attach the shell.
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.42 The body of the turtle is complete.
43 Attach the head to the body of the turtle with double-sided tape. The turtle is complete.