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Origami Snapping Crow

Origami snapping crow is an easy origami action toy. You can see a video of it in action at the bottom of this page.

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Origami Snapping Crow Step 1: Fold a blintz base . This is a commonly used base in origami and we've created a separate page for it.

You should have this to start with.

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Origami Snapping Crow Step 2: Flip paper over. Fold all 4 corners to the center.

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Origami Snapping Crow Step 3: Now crease the right, left and bottom center lines into valley folds. And crease the top center line into a mountain fold.

Refer to our page on valley and mountain folds if you need to.

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Origami Snapping Crow Step 4: Fold the paper in half on the horizontal axis. The top square will form the "head".

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You can make the crow snap by moving the "wings" sideways in small motions.

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Here's the video of the origami snapping crow in action!

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