Origami Roofed Boat | No Cuts or Glue Needed | Floats on Water

This is a simple origami boat that floats. Teach your friends to make a few, wait until its raining, gently put down your boats on the running water, and watch the boats race!

This tutorial teaches you how to fold by putting the picture number next to the instructions. For example, 1) (this represents picture 1) position the paper vertically. The numbers match the picture number.

Supplies

A piece of paper. In my pictures, I used the standard origami 6x6 paper but you can fold it out of letter paper by converting the paper (shown in step 1).

Step 1: Converting Letter Paper to Square

1) Position the paper vertically.

2) Fold the top right corner to the left edge so that the corner lines up.

3) Turn over the paper.

4) Fold up the rectangular side so the the crease lines up with the edge of the triangle shown in picture 2.

5) Unfold the rectangle.

6) Tear along crease.

7) Unfold the triangle.

Step 2: Paper Preparation

1) Fold bottom left corner to the top right so that the corners line up. Crease well.

2) Unfold.

3) Repeat for other diagonal (bottom right to top left corner).

4) Blitz! (This means to take each corner of the square and fold it to the middle.) The result should be a smaller square.

5) Unfold all creases.

Step 3: The Actual Boat Folding

1) Fold each corner to the crease from the blitz.

2) Refold the blitz, careful to keep the corners folded.

3) Turn over the paper.

4) Take the right edge of the small square and fold it to the crease shown.

5) Repeat for the left edge.

6) Fold each corner, following the separation in the paper. Crease very well.

7) Fold each triangular edge to the central line. Crease as best you can.

8) Fold the right and left point to the center. Crease well. This is to lock the boat to keep it from falling apart.

9) Find the two innermost flaps and open them.

10) Continue opening them, careful not to tear the paper, while pushing the backside of the paper towards you.

11) Continue pushing until you see the complete formation of the hull of the boat and the paper stops moving.

12) Turn over the boat.

13) Lift up the flaps shown as the "roofs".

You have completed the paper boat!