change color from green to brown, so you may choose to fold them from various colored papers.
I spent a lot of time revising this model. The goal
was to fold a lizard with accurately sized toes, a Relative size long tail, and fingers and toes all formed from the of finished model. edge of the paper.
1 2 3
Crease the diagonal, flip Crease the halfway mark on Crease on the fourth, making the paper over. adjacent edges, make the the line sharp only about crease sharp only where halfway up the square. indicated.
4 5 6
Flip the sheet over. Crease the angle bisectors. Crease diagonally up to the creases just made. 7 8 9
Flip the paper over. Crease the halfway mark on Crease from the adjacent edges, making it indicated intersection. sharp only where indicated.
10 11 12
Continue the crease from Crease diagonally from one Flip the paper over. the intersection. intersection to the other.
13 14 15
Crease the angle bisector. Crease the indicated Detail.
regions in half.
16 17 18
Crease the diagonal only to Valley-fold from one Valley-fold vertically along the indicated line. intersection to the other. the underlying crease. 19 20 21
Unfold. Repeat steps 13-19 on Crease the trapezoidal
the other side. areas in half.
22 23 24
Crease the angle Crease from the Fold the paper in half bisectors. intersection to the edge. diagonally.
25 26 27
Fold the corner over Detail of the corner. Valley fold along the on existing creases. underlying crease.
28 29 30
Unfold. Unfold. Collapse on the lines shown.
Make the creases sharp only where indicated. 31 32 33
Detail. Crease in half. Crease into fourths. Unfold.
34 35 36
Repeat steps 30-33 on Flip the paper. Rabbit-ear, creasing strongly
the other side. only where shown.
37 38 39
Valley-fold. Detail of the corner. Crease the tip in half.
42 40 41
Crease in fourths. Unfold. Repeat steps 36-41 on
the other side. 43 44 45
Valley-fold the tip. Fold the paper in half. Squash-fold.
46 90° 47 48
Rotate. Crimp. Swivel fold along existing
creases.
49 50 51
Flip the model. Spread-squash. Crimp on existing creases.
52 53 54
Untuck the small corner. Fold one layer to the left. Fold the next layer to the left. 55 56 57
Repeat steps 50-53 on Crimp. Spread-squash.
the right side.
58 59 60
Crease on the bisector. Crimp. Inside reverse-folds.
61 62 63
Detail of the tip. Untuck the small flap. Crease the edges toward the center.
64 65 66
Open-sink. Fold the thin layers to Crease in half.
the left. 67 68 69
Open-sink. Fold the narrow layers to Repeat steps 65-67 on
the right. the right side.
70 71 72
Open sink. Spread-squash. Spread-squash the
next layer.
73 74 75
Fold the pair of pleated Fold the next pair of flaps Bring the creased flaps up. up. The model will not edges to the center. lie flat. 76 77 78 79
Bring the raw edges together. The model Spread- Crease the will lie flat. squash. layer in half. Closed-sink..
80 81 82 83
Repeat Fold the steps 77-71 Valley-fold Open-sink in layers back on the right the two leg and out. over. side. flaps down.
84 85 86 87
Fold one wide layer Valley-fold and many the two arm narrow Preacrease Fold the flaps down. layers over. in half. layers back. 88 89 90
Fold the head Flip over. Detail of backward. head.
91 92 93 94
Valley-fold Pull out Form a Flip over.
the tip. some paper. gusset on the inside layers. Flatten the head. 95 96 97 98
Fold the Open sink on Fold the Repeat
narrow existing layers back steps 95-97 layers over. creases. over. on the left. Spread- squash near the head.
99 100 101 102
Valley-fold Crease the Closed-sink. Detail of
to thin the angle forelegs. tail. bisectors on the tail. 103 104 105 106
