Transformable toy made of colored paper

To make such a toy you will need 12 sheets of colored paper. Three colors, 4 sheets each. The colors used in the sample were blue, red and yellow.

The paper size should be 14x14 cm. Therefore, from one sheet of A4 colored paper you can make two squares. It is advisable to use thick paper, but not cardboard. To ensure that the folds are clearly visible, the sample module uses purple paper. The fold is emphasized with a pen. If you assemble such a module onto a product, then you don’t need to emphasize anything with a pen.

You should take a sheet of paper and bend it in half to form a triangle from the square, as shown here.

We have a diagonal of a square.

The same actions are performed on the other side so that the bends look like this.

Next, the square is bent in half.

We bend the half in half again, on one side and the other.

Let's turn it back. Again, bend the sheet 1 cm on both sides.

As a result, we get the following folds on the sheet.

Select the diagonal folds again.

We take the transverse fold line and connect them together to form a triangle.

Smooth it well so that the sheet does not puff up.

Next, we place one finger on the line in the middle of the triangle, with the other finger we take its lower part and rise up to the sharp corner.

Smooth the edges of the paper that are puffy at the bottom.

The same action is performed on the reverse side of the triangle. It turns out to be a nice little house.

Further you can see that the house has a bend line at the bottom. Along this line we bend the paper outward, but not completely.

The remaining side is bent into the shape of a triangle.

The same actions are performed on the other side of the house. There should be a total of four. Two on one side and two on the other.

We bend everything back to how it was.

This is what happened.

The same modules are made from the remaining 11 sheets.

Once the modules are made, you can begin assembly.

One of the two triangles of the module must be inserted into the “pocket” of the other.

And so on for all 12 modules.

Turn the connected modules upside down.

We take the connection between the two colors (the fold line is visible there) and bend it inward.

We carefully work out the inner bend.

This is done with each joined sheet on both sides.

After all the corners are bent inward, we begin to work on the sides of the product. The first and last module are not touched. On the sample product, the outermost module is red and connected to blue. We leave this side. Next, the place where the blue module connects to the yellow one, we begin to work with them.

We unfold them like a book, this way:

The transverse fold is visible from above. We bend it.

This is what the result should be:

Next, we turn it over like a leaf of a book to the next module. And we do the same actions, and so on almost until the last module (we do not touch it).

All this is done from the other side.

We turn our product back up.Having straightened it a little, turn it around in a semicircle. Let's connect the first and last modules to each other, as was done in the beginning.