Paper Cocotte
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Paper Cocotte
| Author | Traditional |
| Category | bird |
| Difficulty | ** |
| Format | square |
| Base | windmill |
| Text | The traditional model par excellence... in France! Easy, fun, but requires a little skill.
1. Fold the two diagonals into a valley. You have to put the sheet of paper back flat after each of these folds. 2. Fold a median into the valley. Do not unfold. The two diagonals and the median must be valley folds, on the same side of the sheet. We obtain a rectangular shape comprising two flaps linked by a long hinge edge (the median). Each flap has two corners formed of a small side attached to the hinge fold and a large common side, parallel to the hinge fold. 3. Fold the four corners with an oblique valley fold bringing the short side along the hinge fold. Mark the folds well. We obtain a blintz base, half square of the previous one, of double thickness, with the edges at 45¡ to the horizontal. This square has on one side four triangular flaps attached by a hinge fold located along the sides of the square. The other side is smooth. 4. Lay the lined base so that the smooth side is on top. 5. Make a blintz base with the double thickness square, hold it triangle side up. To do this, we fold a median into a valley and fold the four corners of the rectangular shape as in step 3. We obtain a new square half of the previous one, carrying 4 triangles of double thickness. The new triangles cover the triangles of step 3. 6. Fully unfold the first layer of triangles. We see the four simple triangles of the first blintz base appear. 7. Unfold three triangles without flattening them, do not touch the fourth. 8. By reversing the hinge fold which connects it to the rest of the fold, turn over the unfolded triangular flap so that it is under the fold. We obtain a square bordered on three sides by three triangular flaps of simple thickness (the future legs and tail). The unedged side hides, underneath, a triangular flap of simple thickness (the future head). 9. Lightly pinch the outer vertices of the three upper triangles, so as to form a sort of box with vertical edges. All folds exist. It is very important that the sides of the box are well raised in relation to the bottom which forms a square. 10. Put the fold in the air by holding it by each of the future legs, fold it in half by pushing the walls located near the legs towards each other. The legs should come back towards the tail. This is the delicate passage of folding. It's a little trick to take. 11. Check that the head has come out of the folding. If this is not the case, take it out from inside the fold. And there you have it, the famous paper cocotte is ready to rest on its legs and tail, its head raised proudly. |
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| Paper Cocotte - PDF file | ML-Bird01Ang.pdf |