Instructions to Build Flying Fish

Photo of the flying fish
  • Take a strip of paper about 150 X 15 mm.
  • With a pair of scissors make two cuts halfway across the strip and about one sixth of the length of the strip from the ends
  • Bend the strip around in a loop and cross the loop over at the point where you made the cuts.
  • Insert the cuts into each other so that the strip makes a fish shape.

Experiment with different size fish to see how fast and how slow you can make them spin!


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