TEN LITTLE FINGERS - Arvind Gupta

JUMPING FROGThis is an amazing paper toy. It needs a special size of rectangular paper where the length is doublethe width. The frog has a special spring folded from the paper itself. When you press the spring itmakes the frog leap and jump.1. Take a 10 cm x 20 cmrectangular sheet of paper.Fold two squares in it2. Fold criss-cross diagonals inboth the squares. All the fourcreases should be in the samedirection.3. Reverse the paper. It willlook like two hillocks. Foldthe edges of the hills to themidline.4. Reverse the paper. Tap thecentres of both squares to gettwo cups. Push to make atriangle.5. Repeat the same for theright side.6. Bring all the four standingtriangular ears to the left andright hand side corners andcrease.7. Bisect theinternal angles tomake the legs jut out.8. The model whenreversed looks like atortoise. Crease itsbackbone.9. Crease the leftand right hand edgesof the diamond shapeto the backbone.10. Fold the basetriangle upwards, andinsert the left flap in thepocket of the triangle tomake a lock.11. Similarly, lockthe right flap.12. Make a Zshaped spring byfirst folding the frogbackwards and thenforwards.13. Press the spring to makethe frog jump and leap.