The Dragon (easy)

By Dallin -
The dragon is a rather easy model that I designed myself. It is not too difficult; if you can fold a flapping bird you should be able to fold this dragon.


Step 1: Fold a bird base and have the two separate flaps point down


Step 2: Valley fold the right hand flap up at the angle shown in the picture


Step 3: Unfold


Step 4: Mountain fold the same flap at the same angle and unfold



Step 5: Now open up the pocket and inside reverse fold the flap up



Step 6: Flatten and repeat steps 2 through 5 on the left flap


You will get something that looks like this:


Step 7: Valley fold the tip of the left hand flap back at the angle shown below


Step 8: Unfold


Step 9: Mountain fold the same flap at the same angle as in step 7


Step 10: Open the flap and outside reverse fold the flap to become the head and neck of your dragon




Step 11: Flatten


Step 12: Valley fold the top flap down so that it forms a straight line extending from the tip of the tail to the tip of the newly formed wing



Step 13: Mountain fold the other wing down at the same angle


Step 14: Unfold both wings


Step 15: Valley fold the tip of the wing down to the crease line made earlier and unfold



Step 16: Valley fold the wing to the most recent crease and unfold



Step 17: Repeat steps 15 and 16 on the other wing. Valley fold the tip of the wing straight down like so


Step 18: Mountain fold the other wing down at the same angle


Step 19: Unfurl the wings so they have sort of a curl


Step 20: Take the triangular flap at the bottom of the model and valley fold up


Step 21: Fold the tip of that flap down to form a foot and a leg 


Step 22: Unfold the foot so it looks like this:



Step 23: Repeat steps 20 through 22 on all the remaining feet and your dragon is complete! It will flap its wings like the flapping bird, but you have to flatten the folds made to the back feet.



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