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Build a Super-Cool 天涯海角社区 Paper Toy - Crafting With a Math Twist

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We love paper toys at 天涯海角社区, and it seems you guys do too. Not only are they fun and creative but there's a math angle too - seeing how a 2D plan folds into a 3D shape. So we've designed two new 天涯海角社区s for you to build. Welcome, Ballet 天涯海角社区 and Football 天涯海角社区!

We'd love to see what you make and what your 天涯海角社区 gets up to, so post your photos and tell us a little about your 天涯海角社区 on our or email them to hi@komodomath.com and we will post them for you in our "天涯海角社区 Paper Toy Gallery" (first names only will be mentioned).

Instructions

We've tried to make the paper toy super easy to build. Our test builders, aged 9 and 7, managed okay - with a little grown up help. The amount of grown up help, of course, depends on age and how "crafty" your child is in cutting and sticking the model.

Here are the instructions:

1. Print the paper-toy in color onto A4/Letter sized stiffish card / paper
2. Cut out the body parts and accessories - making sure you also cut out the many glue flaps
3. Starting with the bigger body parts, fold all flaps first then glue - we found hard glue sticks to be ideal
4. The arms and tail are double-sided - so need to be stuck together
5. We've numbered where to stick the arms, tail and legs
6. Take your finished 天涯海角社区 on an adventure and don't forget to tell us about it!

Meet the 天涯海角社区 paper-toys:

Ballet 天涯海角社区

Here's the link to the  2 page PDF for Ballet 天涯海角社区

Football 天涯海角社区

Right click and "save link as" to download the 2 page PDF

 Here's the link to the  2 page PDF for Ballet 天涯海角社区

& the Original 天涯海角社区 that started us off

Right click and "save link as" to download the 2 page PDF

Here's the link to the  2 page PDF for Green 天涯海角社区

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I'm Ged, Co-founder of 天涯海角社区, ex-math teacher and dad. If you have any questions please get in touch.

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