Origami Juggling Ball

Here's how to make a nice, sturdy juggling ball (or hacky sack) out of cereal box cardboard.
Yes, its not technically origami....but its doing cool stuff w/ tree products.

This design is based off of Jennifer F's video "Greek Paper Football".

I used regular cereal box cardboard, which is something like .25mm thick...

Step 1 Make the strips

Materials:
Scissors
Cereal Box Cardboard (or any thin cardboard, I suppose. You could probably also use thick paper, or thin plastic)
Ruler
Paper Cutter (optional)

Cut six (6) 20cm x 1.1cm strips
which is about 7 7/8 x 3/8 in

Comments

[enguerrandm]

Awesome, was quick and lovely result Thanks

[rkin5]

do we need the corn flakes?

[semisolidbeast9]

no u dont r tard

[rkin5]

it was a joke yew pheg

[facilitator476]

Of course, cornflakes are the majority of cardboard in the cereal box package.

[Cheezpaper]

Please change the title to paper juggling ball.

Origami is the art of paper folding (as you say in the first paragraph) with out cutting/tearing the paper in any way.

[malachus]

While I respect your right to define origami for yourself as you see fit, I have to disagree that origami, by definition, absolutely precludes cutting or tearing the paper. There are some old origami traditions that require cuts to be made.

[instruct39]

Great job! I like this and I will make 1 tomorrow.

[instruct39]

I made 1 and I took me forever! I finally got it though and I still think it is cool, I just need a bit of practice, thats all.

[jabapyth]

 awesome =) congratulations.

[origamianything]

:) This is great! I'll finally be able to make a hackysack/juggling ball faster than it takes for me to make 30 units and put them together(for hackysack unit)!!! :D
Awesome tutorial/instructable, by the way. :)

[origamianything]

After I do ten of these, then I'll probably be able to do what I said xD

[origamianything]

AND REMEMBER EVERY1 ON THIS INSTRUCTABLE THERE IS NO TAPE INVOLVED!!!

[slinngr]

Thank you SOOOO much for posting these instructions! 

We had an emergency here, and it's come in VERY handy!

We have a friend who has an elderly bird who is VERY bonded with a specific toy. He's had it all of his life. When his toy went to tatters, and daddy came home without a replacement - because it's no longer being made and sold! - the poor bird is in bad shape.

The Greek ball toy made of palm leaves was his absolute FAVORITE, and his "best friend." Now that mommy and daddy couldn't find a replacement, he is stressed to the max (which is affecting his health and starting to make him ill - and it could kill him.).

I've been searching for two days straight on how to make one of these, with no luck until now.

Now I can put together a toy for Mr. W and hopfully he'll recover!

Who'd have thought your instructional video on making a BALL could mean life or death - literally, right? lol

[jabapyth]

I'm glad to have been of service ;) Good luck with the bird.

[Shadow_Force]

 Nice instructable! Very well written and very rewarding results! Have 5*

[krazipanda]

i finally finished it. it was difficult to make out of a pops box cause the tape wouldnt stick well to it....oh, and my cat just ripped it apart -.-

[jabapyth]

congrats ;) yeah, I probably should have put "keep away from small children...and pets"

[krazipanda]

whups, i mean step 2

[krazipanda]

I'm still stuck on the first step..... how does it hold together when you're making it, and how do you make it so tight?

[noah1r]

good idea I like it :p

[Pryo Chain]

Sweet. Seems like it might be a bit too light... but I'll give it a try anyway.

[1thadeaus1]

i just figured this out, but if you wanna glue the overlaps together to make it stronger, put glue where u want it and you can blow up a small balloon in the ball, tie it off, then take a hot hair dryer and blow the hot air on the balloon and the balloon will expand making the overlaps connect with the underlaps and do that for a while 'til the glue dries...there ya go...lol

^*TGC^*

[jabapyth]

wow, that's a really neat idea! I'll have to try it out. I'm curious, did you leave the balloon inside? That might look cool...or you could fill it with something...

[1thadeaus1]

you could leave the balloon inside to give it a different look...i think i might experiment...

[alex-sharetskiy]

Seems like it would be a little too lite

[jabapyth]

It's lighter, but more bouncy. It's not *exactly the same* as a hacky sack, but works surprisingly well.
--make it yourself and find out ;-)

[jabapyth]

or maybe you meant for juggling >.< I've found they work great :)

[choji]

that was a nice one :P :D