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This paper toy was inspired by artist Haruki Nakamura, but please note that this is my design and differs from this (though I think it uses a similar mechanism to pop up the penguin). This is a form of paper craft known as Kamikara (kami is paper, kara is trick).

Please support the artist who inspired this -- Haruki Nakamura -- at his YouTube channel:    / girigiriou  

MATERIALS LIST (contains my affiliate links):

65 lb. 8.5″ x 11″ cardstock (I used two sheets of black, one sheet of white, and one sheet of orange) https://amzn.to/2t4v19n

Two rubberbands — one in size 16 (2.5 inches long) and one in size 18 (3 inches long) https://www.amazon.com/Alliance-07800...

Tacky glue https://amzn.to/2t4uYKB

Hot glue

Two dimes (or small weights)

A 7″ piece of wire, tweezers, or a hooked took, such as a crochet hook

A way to cut out your paper pieces

The pattern/cut files (Design #41) available in my free resource library https://jennifermaker.com/resource-li...

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This pop-up penguin is going to blow your mind! Several times on Facebook I was tagged in an article about Kamikara, which is the Japanese word for trick papercrafts. Among these crazy papercrafts was a penguin that popped up when you dropped it on a surface. I was fascinated and set out to learn everything I could. It’s no secret I love to figure out extreme papercrafts, like the pop-up apple tree earlier this year. The talented designer of the penguin and other kamikara, Hakuri Nakamura sells a book in Japan, but his patterns aren’t available online. So after watching many videos and a whole lot of trial and error, I came up with my own design of this penguin paper bomb! It’s not his pattern, but certainly inspired by it.

HOW TO MAKE A PENGUIN PAPER BOMB

First, cut out all of your pieces

Fold the top of the head piece (the smaller roundish piece without a hole in the middle). Fold each side in and each tab in. Crease each to get a good fold. You’ll also need to fold in the triangle pieces. The rubber band holder tabs get folded in then up.

Now glue down the triangles, the rectangular side reinforcements on top of each side with triangles, and the rubber band holders.

Do the same thing to the bottom of the head piece — fold and glue.

It’s time now to fold the paper spring mechanism, which comes in two parts. The first part, which looks like a rectangle with wings, gets its tabs folded up at the base. The section that is longer gets down again.

Now glue on the white face parts to the top and bottom of the head piece, as shown below. It’s important to pay attention to the orientation of the rubber band holders when you attach the face parts to ensure they are in the right place later.

Now, fold the orange bill piece in half, glue it closed, then sandwich it in between the top and bottom of the white face with glue.

Once the two head pieces are attached at the face, you can fold it closed and glue all of the other tabs and rubber band holders together.

Now let’s make it able to pop up! To do this, take your smaller rubber band (size 16 — about 2.5″ long when folded) and drop it into the head so one end of the rubber band loops around one end of a rubber band loop.

Now reach into the head, grasp the rubber band, and hook it around the other end of the same rubber band holder.

If you have difficulties grasping the rubber band, make yourself a hook out of a piece of wire as I did. Using that hook, reach into the head from the opposite side of where your rubber band is currently hooked on, grasp the end of the rubber band, and carefully hook it around the rubber band holder directly across from the first one.

Lastly, reach inside with your hook from the other side, get the rubber band, and wrap it around the last end of the rubber band holders.

At this point, you should be able to let go and the head will pop into place!

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Credits:
Introduction: PixelBytes (my child!)
Music: Playful (royalty and copyright free)
Videography: Jennifer Marx on a Panasonic Lumix FZ-1000 DSLR 4K camera
Design: A Jennifer Maker original!