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Materials:
  • Square sheet of paper
  • Straight pin
  • Pencil with eraser
  • Scissors
  1. Fold the paper diagonally.

  2. Folding paper in a triangle.

  3. Fold it again.
  4. Now, when you open the paper and lay it out flat, it will have an "x" creased through it.

  5. Folding paper in a triangle.

  6. Cut along each fold to within one inch of the center.
  7. Pick up one corner and hold it in the center.
  8. Do this with each of the other corners.
  9. Keep them in the center by sticking a straight pin through them, then stick the pin through the eraser.

Move your windmill through the air and watch it spin!

Paper windmill.

Updated: 1:48 pm ET March 27, 2008