How to make an origami frog

I’ve chosen to do an origami frog because it is something fun, interesting and new to do for me. I’ve found out how to make it with the following origami website. The instructions are easy to follow and it turns out great. Try making one for yourself! Also I taught my sister how to make it and played around with our camera to take the pictures for this with the best lighting and angles possible. I followed the instructions closely as it was quite easy to understand and it turned out similar to the example shown on the website.

Start with a square piece of paper

Fold corner to corner and top to bottom

Pick one side of the corner and fold it to the corner next to it

Do the same to the other side

Crease paper

Next insert your finger in one of the pockets

Move the pocket around to the front, then flatten and crease it

Perform this move on three pockets…until the paper is in a diamond shape.

Next fold and unfold the corners as shown, to make crease marks

Next fold the paper inwards to make a petal shape

Perform the petal shape fold three more times on the other three faces

Fold the frog base down the centreline

Then fold the lower edges of one layer into the centreline

Now use reverse folds to stretch the back legs

Fold the legs like this

And arms like this

Now you’ll need to blow where the frog’s bottom is, to inflate it.

You can make the frog jump a short distance

The Zorgs are coming

Character: Alien from Outer Space                                                                                    

Setting: At a swimming pool                                                                                                   

Time: After a big meal                  

Situation: Secret needs to be confessed to someone

The Zorgs are coming

The Zorg civilization is an ancient group of aliens who live in a gigantic space ship in outer space. There is only thing that keeps a Zorg alive, as strange as it sounds it is water. In the central part of the ship the Zorgs are getting ready for a big feast. The Zorg who’s organizing the feast is the head chef, his name is Zap Zanagin. Zap is a brilliant chef, with a lot of genius dishes, like toothpaste, sawdust and copper. Zap slowly slithers along the floor, knowing that his ten tentacles, his giant head and small greenish arms can’t make him go faster.

Finally he arrives at the kitchen and he starts to make one of his famous dishes. But he sees that the water supply is low. He hits an oversized red dusty button next to the water supply, next thing you know an alarm goes off with a horrendous sound. Every Zorg on the ship starts to yell and flap their tentacles slapping each other everywhere. Zap slithers over to the leader of the clan. She is described as a gorgon, with feet smelling horrid. She has made a snappy decision already. Unfortunately all the alien men are fighting in a war, just to see who gets one mile of space. So she orders Zap to go to a random planet in search for water. Zap’s alien face said everything; he was frustrated, angry and furious.

He knows that Earth is the closest planet which consists of water. He ventures out into the space wilderness with a ten metre by ten metre flying saucer. He finally finds Earth and also a water source (a swimming pool). He lands on the roof of the changing rooms; he pushes a button on his suit which changes him into a human boy. He jumps off the roof and stares at the water filled pool. There are too many humans there he thought, all of a sudden there was a strange feeling in Zap’s stomach, was it gas? Next thing you know Zap burps, a nasty diabolical, dreadful smell came out of his mouth. One by one the humans become paralysed; one by one they fall to the ground. Now it’s Zap’s chance, he dashes quickly like a cheetah with his new human legs to his saucer. From his flying saucer an enormous straw extends and starts to suck the water out of the swimming pool.

 Out of the changing rooms comes the lifeguard, who works there. He sees everyone unconscious and then he leisurely looks up to the horizon. The lifeguard runs up at Zap and grabs him. He says to Zap “What are you?”, Zap replies in confession “I’m an alien sent here to destroy everyone!” Zap laughs at his joke and then hooks the lifeguard on his over shocked face. That punch sent him to the ground with a “THUD!” Zap collects the rest of the water and heads back into space. He has saved the Zorg civilization and goes back to be a chef (or that’s what the others thought).                     

My holidays

After a long, tough year my family and I wanted some fun. So we went to Rainbow's End, the only theme park in New Zealand. We had endless, senseless fun going on various great rides such as the rollercoaster, scorpion carts and the new ride - The Invader.

Christmas was great too as I had lots of fun with the presents I got, in particular the Xbox 360. My family and I also hosted a New Year's eve party with our relatives and friends.