Dancing Octopus - level 1

Dancing Octopus is the one of the simplest paperfoldings for kids. It involves simple cuts and paste as well. To start our journey to become a paperfolding master, dancing octopus will be a good practice for you and for your younger siblings and cousins.

1. Fold bottom edge up to top edge.

2. Place folded edge downward as shown.

3. Cut folded edge seven times vertically to mid-section for the octopus legs.

4. Bring the two edges together and tape two top layers from each ends to form a cylinder. Then draw an octopus face!!!

5. Slide two layers of octopus with your two fingers.

6. Your octopus will dance with legs moving.

Octopus should not be hard, but has to follow the steps correctly as shown. Cutting the wrong edge taping over outer and inner layers with one tape will fail you. So please be careful with those steps!^^