Slider Ring

Ok, this is how you start. You take 8 papers, cut 4 by 4 inches. Try to do two different colors as it will look better and you will be able to see what you are doing better. Fold the papers in half like a hot dog. Then unfold and fold corner to corner like a triangle. Unfold and fold the other side like a triangle. You can see the three folds here.

Um. These two photos are out of order. SO, follow the bottom one first, you fold the paper to look like the start of an airplane. Fold it in half, and you get the picture above this one.

The picture above this writing is the next step. With the airplane point in your fingers, reverse fold the end of it. It will make a diamond shape.

Take two of the diamond shapes. In the dotted piece, the airplane nose is at the base of my thumb. The airplane nose for the grey piece, it at the top. Nestle the grey piece into the reverse fold of the dotted piece. Make it go about a quarter of an inch above the dotted one.

Here's a end view of what it looks like.

See the two little ends that poke up. Fold them around the grey piece. That is what is going to hold the two pieces together. Once they are folded in, you can pull the grey piece out so that it is even with the dotted piece.

It will look like this. Next, take a dotted piece, nestle it in the grey piece, and repeat all of the steps again, and you will end up with this!

This is the Slider Ring Open

This is the Slider Ring Closed.

Hopefully this will work. I am going to attempt to show you how to make the slider ring that my son made at school. I think its cool. His job in class, was to make shapes in the center of the ring. By sliding the sides, you can make a triangle, a square ect. All the way to an octogon.

It is very fun to play with, and quick and easy to make!

Here goes!