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How to Make a Really Easy Origami Fish Bone

When you place your order at an Asian restaurant, you have some time to kill before your food arrives. You may use the time to prepare for you meal by putting your napkin on your lap, making sure sauces are within reach and unwrapping your chopsticks. But once you've taken your chopsticks out of their paper wrapper, use the paper to create an origami fish bone. Origami -- the ancient Japanese art of paper folding -- helps kill time while waiting for your food, and also gives you somewhere to rest your chopsticks between bites. Create an origami fish bone and everyone at your table will want one.

Things You'll Need

Paper wrapper from chopsticks

Instructions

- 1
  Lay the long rectangle-shaped wrapper paper out on the table, smoothing it to make it flat and easy to work with.
- 2
  Fold the wrapper in half lengthwise, then open the paper back up. Fold edges down from the top and bottom of the paper to make a pointed tip about 1/4-inch long. Next, fold the triangular-shaped tip back to make a crease, creating the head of the fish.
- 3
  Fold the paper back and forth, keeping the base of the triangle flush with the bottom of your folds. Then open all the paper back up, except the triangle fish head. Using the crease marks in the paper, manipulate the paper to create a spine and back bones by squeezing the paper together along crease marks. Pull the sides of paper together for the fish's spine, then make a diamond shape that you fold cross-ways and push together to make rib bones.
- 4
  Go over all the crease marks to strengthen the structure of the fish. The last piece of paper at the end of the spine cannot be diamond-shaped, but should be triangular, creating the fish's tail.
- 5
  Rest your chopsticks across the back bone of your origami fish.

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