Rising Peacock | English
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 06/12/2016

With your two hands you can make this beautiful paper Peacock raise and lower its wings. To make this you need a square paper 20-cm on one edge. First fold a diagonal. Then fold one corner on the diagonal, leaving 1/3rd or about 7-cm from the top corner. Now fold two skewed triangles in the small triangle. The folds should be 1/3rd of the whole angle.  Bothe skewed triangles should meet on the diagonal line. Fold the skewed triangles into a nose. Now once again fold the model in half along its diagonal. Draw the beak and neck of the peacock and then cut. Fold the neck of the peacock so that it juts out a little outwards. Now hold the neck of the peacock with one hand and pull the flap down with the other. This will make the peacock’s wings lift and fall. 

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Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Manish Jain, Pradnya Pujari, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta