The Martian Bouncing Spider

1. fold and unfold paper diagonaly in half both ways then 2. Blintz fold again the center Then unfold completely and blintz fold in all the corner to the center. turn the model over.

3. Fold the raw edge up to the top crease, then 4. Fold the raw edge up to the first crease, then unfold. Repeat on other 3 sides. unfold and reapeat on other 3 sides.

Turn the model over.

5. Make a really large rabbits ear, then unfold and 6. This is all of the folds after step 5, from here

repeat on the other thre corners. we go to the crease pattern to fold this into

a long armed windmill.

7. Collapse the model in to a long armed 8. The model should have collapsed into

pinwheel. a large pinwheel type shape. Note

the small square in the center of the

model remains flat through out the

collapse. In the next diagram you

will see only 1 arm shown.

10. Note that the bottom most preliminary base

9. Notice creases on the arm of the model, is four layers, put two layers to each side,

the next step is to use these creses to the other folds will be only 1 layer each.

fold each arm into 3 preliminary base

each one opposite to the one before.

11. Three layers of preliminary

bases on on top the other.

12. This is an enlarged view of the

leg we just folded. Now we fold

half of a bird base.

13. Fold another half of a bird base,

but in the opposite direction.

14. Fold the final half 15. Finished view of one leg.

of a bird base in

opposite direction of

the previous one.

16. Repeat steps 9

through 15 on all

legs.

17. Now to finish your martian bouncing

Odd note here if you feel the need to improve your spider, grab the tip of each leg one at a time and gently pull in out till the spiders bounce some careful wet folding at the end, middle of the leg becomes tube like. or glue if you want to hold the square part of his

body together, or just use stiff paper like I do and

it should work just fine! Perry

18. Each leg will pull out like this. Finished!!!! now tap the x and

watch him bounce! With practice

you can even dribble your spider.