Take a 10 minute break: Try the Origami challenge

During HolidayBash, @richard_club and @mwinteringham set some excellent challenges, including the following:

Create an Origami shape with a single piece of A4 paper.

So how about it? Take a 10-minute break from your work and give it a go. And feel free to share a photo of your efforts here if you like. :wink:

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Are there rules about changing the shape of the A4 paper? (e.g. can I fold and tear the paper so that it becomes square?)

(what a silly question, I’m a tester, of course I can)

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Great question! Go with whatever you wanna go with. :smiley:

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OK I’m going to give this a shot in the afternoon, I think I remember how to fold a butterfly out of an A4. Gonna let the memory resurface for a bit and then get cracking.

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Here is my dragon attempt, I did several things wrong. Will give it another go later on!

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Ach no you just did them differently :wink: It looks great!

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That looks cool. :dragon:

There is no wrong. There is no right. There is just Origami.

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I’m so glad to hear you say that because this is what I managed to make of the butterfly I promised. It’s not deformed, it’s just… fresh out of the cocoon?

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Are you folding insurance papers or did you get a speeding ticket? XD

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Heck yeah. That is so cool!

My brain sometimes works in strange ways as I also see them as a pair of “rock n roll” trousers with flared out sides and wings. The sort of thing a metal band would wear at Eurovision. :guitar: Butterfly Rock Pants!? (I don’t tend to use the American English word for trousers yet perhaps that works :sweat_smile:).

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:rofl: Managed to park my motorbike on its side the other day… I got a lucky break though because I’d got this 10-days All Risk for free with my new insurance, so timing was amazing, they reimbursed me for the (very minor) damages. The little sketch I had to make was super embarrassing though because it was essentially a drawing of me just falling over…

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Hahahaha I’ll send them over to Italy for inspiration, I think they might want to do some more rock n roll seeing how well that went this year :laughing:

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A frog! Have made many of these over the years.
The cool thing is that they can really jump.

And yes, we do have green a4 paper

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Hi little frog, welcome to the community! :wave:t2: Feel free to have a jump around.

@pmichielsen, reckon you’d be open to sharing a video of the jumping frog? :frog:

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Frog says thanks! :frog:

As requested:

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I can’t stop watching it! :cool: :frog:

Thanks for sharing.

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ow oW!!! Sweet XD
Might make a second attempt and try this jumping frog! :wink:

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To the tune of “The King of Rock ‘N’ Roll” by Prefab Sprout.

Hot dog, jumping frog, albuQAque!

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Nicely made origami frog :ok_hand:t2::smiley:

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