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Hi! I’m Michael Webb on behalf of expertvillage.com and right now we’re going to be making a
sphinx. In order to do this, the first thing that you want to do is make a crease from
every corner to corner and every edge to edge. That’s just going to give us a lot of reference
creases for some of our later folding. Okay and once you get that, open it up and you’re
going to go along your center vertical crease and you’re going to fold each edge into
the middle to make your piece of paper long and rectangular. Knowing this much like we did with the windmill,
you want to take each edge and fold it to where it makes an X or creases down at the
bottom and just do it for the bottom one. What you’re going to do is open it up and
make your canoe shape and this is what’s going to form our sphinx. From there, from
your center point to your end point, you’re going to want to take this and fold it inward
until it makes a shape much like that and do the same for the other end. Now here on
the bottom you already got from our creases earlier, two diagonal folds and you’re just
going to fold these guys under until you get a triangular shape. Then you’re going to
do a valley fold and just bring that under like so. Down here on the bottom we’re going
to make the head of the sphinx by just make a fold. Imagine if you just got a line here
to make another triangle there and you’re going to make that so that this point comes
out over this line and do it once and do it twice just to secure the fold. Now you’re
going to want to do an inverse fold on that and bring that in to make your head, now this
is the start of the sphinx. Now this is the tricky part, this is going to be a pretty
complicated pleat fold. So what you want to do from right here to right here, go ahead
and make your first fold once and twice and you’ll make another one about half way up,
right there and basically you’re just going to sort of open this up and sort of push that
down there which can take a little bit of work and a few minutes just because of the
creases. But once you get it, it kind of stuffs him down there and makes that neck a little
less long and gives you a little more interesting folds to make a more sphinx like shape. Really
mash those down and then to finish off the nose, you’re just going to do an inside
reverse fold, mash that in there a little bit and open the nose up and push that in.
There you have a finished sphinx.