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Waterbomb Base

Valley Fold

The valley fold is formed by folding the paper toward oneself. An arrow shows where to fold the piece of paper to.

Symbol: dashed line

1. Start with a square sheet of paper and valley fold it in halfes.

Squash Fold

Prefold both sheets of paper along the valley and mountain fold. Then open the model, fold one layer of paper along the valley fold and flatten the model using the mountain fold.

The big white arrow tells you to open the model.

2. Precrease and squash fold.

3. Repeat step 2 on the other side.

4. The finished Waterbomb Base.

With the Waterbomb Base you can fold the following models:

• Cube (Waterbomb)
• Fish
• Flower