How to Make a Paper Football

Community Tested

Three Parts:Cutting and Folding Your Paper Creating the Inside of the Football Shaping and Coloring Your Football Community Q&A

You might not be able to play football in the office or classroom, but you can probably get away with tossing around a paper football—its unique triangular alternative.

Новости СМИ2

And you can make a paper football right from your desk in just a minute without a pair of scissors. Just portion and fold your paper and then create your football by folding a series of small triangles together.

1 Find an 8.5 by 11 inch (22 by 28 cm) sheet of paper. Ideally, you should use a sheet of printer paper or tear out a piece of ordinary paper from your notebook. This is the best size of paper for a paper football, although if your paper is a bit smaller or larger it will still work. Notebook and printer paper works better than thicker paper or construction paper because they’re easier to fold. They’re also lighter and easier to use in a game of paper football.^[1]
- Use a fresh sheet of paper so the football looks nice. This will also make it easier for you to decorate it later if you’d like.
2 Fold the paper in half lengthwise and then unfold it. Either fold the right side of the paper to the left, or the left side of the paper to the right. Make sure the edges of the paper match up so that you create a neat vertical crease down its center. Unfold the paper once you’ve made a defined crease.^[2]
- Pinch the crease with your thumb and index fingers and run them along it to make it more firm.
- To make the crease even firmer, you can unfold the 2 halves, turn the paper…