Traditional Origami Swan

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Get a square piece of paper, turn it over so that the colored side is at the bottom.

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Fold the piece of paper in half diagonally, so that it looks like a triangle.

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Unfold you triangle so that it looks like a square again.

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Take the two edges across from the center crease and fold them to that crease. It should make a
kite shape.

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Turn your paper over.

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Take the sides of your kite shape and fold those into the middle crease again. The kite should be
thinner with triangular designs on one side.

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Without turning the paper over, take the bottom point of the kite (the thinnest part) and fold it
up to the top point of your kite shape, with the thin point along the middle crease.

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Take the tip of the thin point and fold down a small portion of the point down, the portion
should look like a triangle that is only about 1 or 2 centimeters tall. The triangle formed by the
previous step that was a triangle, should now look like a very tall trapezoid.

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Remember that middle crease at the very first step? Fold the crease in half again. Except with the
design side on the top.

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Tightly holding the base of the triangle, pull up the thin point of the triangle to a desired height.
It could be straight up, or at a sharp angle.

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Pull the little part out to resemble a beak.

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Decorate as desired.

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