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How To Make An Easy Origami Paper Plane

There are a few basic paper planes that are fun to fly. Besides the simple paper dart covered in a previous video, this is one of the simplest ones. As a kid, I always liked to refer to it as the MIG.

Preparing Paper for an Easy Paper Plane

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This easy paper plane design requires a tall rectangular paper. So if you’re using regular origami squares, you will need to cut off a broad strip off the side.

Origami Paper Plane Instructions

Step 1

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Place the rectangle tall and colour-side down. Fold in half along the length, and then unfold.

Step 2

Step 02 - Origami Paper Plane - easy paper plane steps
Fold the top half edge down towards the central crease to form this triangle.

Step 3

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And repeat the fold on the other half.

Step 4

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You now have this broad triangular shape on top. Pull it down along the base line and then pull further downward, so that there is a bit of an extra band of paper in addition the triangle that’s folded down.

Step 5

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Fold one of those coloured half edges at the top towards the central line.

Step 6

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Mirror that on the other side.

Step 7

Step 07 - Origami Paper Plane - easy paper plane steps
You have a small downward pointing triangle towards the bottom half. Fold that up to lock all the flaps together.

Step 8

Step 08 - Origami Paper Plane - easy paper plane steps
Flip it over and fold in half along the central line.

Step 9

Step 09 - Origami Paper Plane - easy paper plane steps
Fold one of the coloured slanting edges down towards the central line to form a wing.

Step 10

Step 10 - Origami Paper Plane - easy paper plane steps
Flip it over and fold the other wing.

Step 11

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Unfold the wings so that they are almost parallel to the ground when you hold the body of your plane in your fingers, and it’s ready to fly.

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