This little pop-up penguin is going to blow your mind! Several times this week on Facebook I was tagged in an article about Kamikara, which is the Japanese word for trick papercrafts. Among these crazy papercrafts was a penguin that popped up when you dropped it on a surface.
I was fascinated and set out to learn everything I could. It’s no secret I love to figure out extreme papercrafts, like the earlier this year. The talented designer of the penguin and other kamikara, Hakuri Nakamura sells a book in Japan, but his patterns aren’t available online. So after watching many videos and a whole lot of trial and error, I came up with my own design of this penguin paper bomb!
It’s not his pattern, but certainly inspired by it. Here is a quick video that shows the pop-up effect of the penguin.
I want to point out that while this penguin was inspired by Haruki Nakamara’s penguin, it is not the same — so if you’re trying to make his, you may find this tutorial helpful in ways but it does not show you how how to make his penguin. This penguin paper bomb is of my own design (with help from my son Alex), based on a visual review of videos — I did not have access to his design. I believe it works similarly, but not exactly. Big kudos to Haruki Nakamura for his original design! Do you think you can make a penguin paper bomb? I think you can! But be forewarned — this will be a challenge.
Consider it more of a puzzle to solve than a simple papercraft. You can put it together, sure, but can you make it pop up when you drop it? And will the penguin land on his feet? That is your quest, if you choose to accept it!
This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience (which means if you make a purchase after clicking a link I will earn a small commission but it won’t cost you a penny more)! Penguin Paper Bomb Materials. (I used two sheets of black, one sheet of white, and one sheet of orange). — one in size 16 (2.5 inches long) and one in size 18 (3 inches long).
Hot glue. Two dimes (or small weights). A 7″ piece of wire, tweezers, or a hooked took, such as a crochet hook.
A way to cut out your paper pieces (, but you can also cut it out with scissors). The pattern/cut files (available in my — get the password for free by filling out the form at the bottom of this post) How to Make a Penguin Paper Bomb First, cut out all of your paper pieces using my cut files or pattern. If you cut with a, upload the.SVG file to Cricut Design Space, place it on your Canvas, click Ungroup, change the two red layers with score lines to “Score,” then select each red score layer and its corresponding black cut layer and click Attach.
You’ll need to attach both sets of red score layers and black cut layers to ensure the score lines appear in the proper places. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you’re not sure how to upload an SVG file to Cricut Design Space, or you’re having issues (such as getting a message that says “unsupported file”), please watch my free training series,. It will help you SO much!. If you cut with scissors, print out the PDF files onto the appropriately colored cardstock and then cut. I’ve included a pattern for solid color cardstock, as well as a patterned design that you can print onto white cardstock. Next, watch my full-length assembly video at the link below: This video will show you things that are hard to explain in this post.
But this post has information not available in the video, so be sure to read it, too! Your first step is to fold the top of the head piece (the smaller roundish piece without a hole in the middle). Fold each side in and each tab in. Crease each to get a good fold. You’ll also need to fold in the triangle pieces. The rubber band holder tabs get folded in then up.
Here’s a photo of the top of the head piece folded. Now glue down the triangles, the rectangular side reinforcements on top of each side with triangles, and the rubber band holders. Here is a photo of the top of the head piece after it is glued. Do the same thing to the bottom of the head piece — fold and glue. It’s time now to fold the paper spring mechanism, which comes in two parts.
The first part, which looks like a rectangle with wings, gets its tabs folded up at the base. The section that is longer gets down again. Here are photos of how it is folded and glued. Now glue on the white face parts to the top and bottom of the head piece, as shown below.
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It’s important to pay attention to the orientation of the rubber band holders when you attach the face parts to ensure they are in the right place later. It’s time to glue these two head pieces together, but first we need to fold the orange bill piece in half, glue it closed, then sandwich it in between the top and bottom of the white face with glue. Once the two head pieces are attach at the face, you can fold it closed and glue all of the other tabs and rubber band holders together, like this: Your head piece should be able to make this shape at this point: Now let’s make it able to pop up! To do this, take your smaller rubber band (size 16 — about 2.5″ long when folded) and drop it into the head so one end of the rubber band loops around one end of a rubber band loop. Now reach into the head, grasp the rubber band, and hook it around the other end of the same rubber band holder. If you have difficulties grasping the rubber band, make yourself a hook out of a piece of wire as I did.
Using that hook, reach into the head from the opposite side of where your rubber band is currently hooked on, grasp the end of the rubber band, and carefully hook it around the rubber band holder directly across from the first one. This is tricky! It took me many tries to get the hang of this.
Lastly, reach inside with your hook from the other side, get the rubber band, and wrap it around the last end of the rubber band holders. At this point, you should be able to let go and the head will pop into place! Flatten the head again, turn it over, and make sure the mechanism is sticking out.
(You may need to reach in with your hook and pull it out.) Allow the protruding side of the mechanism to catch on the bottom, which will keep it flat. Now drop it on your work surface. Mechanism side down. If you did it right, it will pop up! If it doesn’t work, check to make sure nothing is impeding the mechanism from being pushed in when it lands on the work surface. Next fold the two halves of the penguin’s body. Glue down the triangles, side reinforcement pieces, and rubber band holders, just as you did with the head pieces.
Glue on the white body pieces. Pay careful attention to the arrangement of the black body pieces. Follow the same orientation as in my photos below. Now insert and hook the size 18 rubberband into the body in the same way you did it for the head. Here is the body with the rubber band in place.
Now you need to glue the head to the body. Line up the rectangles on each one so they match up, then glue. Tip: If your body doesn’t seem to be aligning right, turn it over and try again. When you glue it, center the head on the body as much as possible.
Now glue the reinforcement piece onto the bottom of your penguin paper bomb, being careful it does not impede the mechanism. Check this by flattening it to make sure it all fits properly. Glue on the orange feet so they stick out on either side of the white part of the body. Now stand your penguin up and glue on this wings to either side of his body. I recommend you glue them on so the wings just brush the ground, as this may help him stabilize when he jumps up! Another way you can stabilize your penguin when he pops up is to put weights on the bottom. I hot glued two dimes onto the bottom and that works pretty well.
Now it’s time to try out your penguin paper bomb. Flatten him, put the mechanism into place (so the protruding part on the tab overhangs the open rectangle underneath), and drop him onto a surface. If you did it right, the penguin will pop right up! Does it not pop up?
Make sure nothing is in the way of the tab. If it looks like something is in the way, feel free to widen the opening so it doesn’t impede the mechanism. And there we go — you have your very own penguin paper bomb. Now I have a challenge for you. Make a penguin and give him or her a name. Now take a video of it popping up when you drop it. Put it on Facebook, tag my Facebook page in it so I see it (like my page first so you can tag it).
(No Facebook? Email it to me!) Anyone who does this will get their video and name to my roll of honor on this page. This is a special list honoring everyone who successfully made a penguin that pops up when you drop him! I want to see as many people make penguin paper bombs as possible! Penguin Paper Bomb Roll of Honor 1. Reader Emma Cogger was the first to show me a video of her working paper bomb!
Reader Tonya Brooks made an adorably blingy penguin! She says, “I added some extras to it. This was so much fun and would make cute Christmas cards. I definitely will be making more.” 3.
Supporter Amy at amygonnacraft made Mr. She says, “Meet Mr. Fluffles having a great fall, he is fun. My daughter loves making him bounce.” So are you ready to do this? If so, here’s the files! Free Cut Files & Pattern for the Penguin Paper Bomb Get the password for the library with the free penguin paper bomb pattern and SVG/DXF/PDF files here by filling out this form: If you enjoy paper toys like this, I encourage you to check out the talented designer of the penguin and other kamikara, and his. Visit the to see his other creations and support his work!
If you make a penguin paper bomb, please share a photo or video of it with me by emailing me at or tagging me on social media with #jennifermaker. Love, Check Out This Easier & Faster Paper Bomb: More Fun Pop-Up Papercraft Tutorials. Do you like to do craft projects, too? Share and leave a comment below!
I must say that while I like the idea of an interactive doll my experiences with them so far have not been happy ones. Several years ago I bought “Amazing Amy” by Playmates at Salamanca market. I think I paid about $30 for her. The first Amazing Amy was released in 1998 and since then Playmates have released other interactive dolls such as “Amazing Allysen”and “Amazing Amanda”. Amy had been well looked after and had most of her food items so I was keen to try her out at home. Amy had a habit of turning herself on automatically, I think I messed up her programming, and we were startled a few times hearing her voice coming from the doll room. I could live with that but what I could not live with was Amy’s manners and her hypochondria.
When she was given her vegetables or something else she did not want to eat she would say “Eww! Mommy.” or “No way Mommy.” I’m sure many mothers can relate to that and on its own I probably would not have been too bothered although I certainly would have been told off for that as a child. Keep in mind that I have never had children of my own so maybe I am not very tolerant. Some of you may think that I’m being silly about this but it annoyed me very much. I never heard my Amy say please or thank you although apparently she does have these words in her vocabulary. I mentioned this to some other doll collectors I had met online.They thought that she sounded cute. I didn’t find her cute.
However, the most disturbing thing about Amy was that she would often ask for medicine! It was the request I heard most often and I felt like Amy was some kind of hypochondriac doll.
When all was said and done not only did I not love Amy I actively disliked her so I sold her on to someone with a little girl who probably had lots of fun with her. I looked for a photo of Amy. I know I took some of her but I think I deleted it after I sold her so here is a YouTube video instead. It’s quite long. Published by Taswegian1957 Born in England in 1957 my family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband David.
We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. David passed away in 2015 and I'm here on my own now but I have Cindy the dog and Polly the cat to keep me company.
I currently co-write two Wordpress blogswith my sister Naomi. Our doll blog 'Dolls, Dolls, Dolls', and a 'Our Other Blog' which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. Post navigation. Lol, a whining hypchondriac, just what everyone needs in their lives, so not. I wonder how long this doll plague was on the market? I don’t like whiny children either and my kids learned early, that whining did not get them what they wanted.
It’s not asked to much of a child that can speak, to say please and thank you either. If she would say please when she wants something, she would be a great way to teach children good manners.
I’m not a fan of her face though and that hole in her chest makes her look a little cyborg. I came to Australia with my mother and sister Vanda in 1966 from the UK aboard the Sitmar liner Castel Felice. We settled in South Australia I lived in the western suburbs of Adelaide for most of my life. I became very interested in retro items in my twenties.
It was always a dream of mine to have an old house and fill it with retro items. I have done it twice now. My main interest is collecting old things. They do not have to be valuable, only interesting. There is something reassuring about old retro items. I have all sorts of things including doll related items.
My other interests are my beautiful pets, art and going for drives to who knows where. I also enjoy board games or doing a scenic jig saw puzzle on a wintry afternoon by the fire. My goal is to travel a bit more as there are some places I would love to see About Vanda. Born in England in 1957 my family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system.
After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. David passed away in 2015 and I'm here on my own now but I have Cindy the dog and Polly the cat to keep me company. I currently co-write two Wordpress blogswith my sister Naomi. Our doll blog 'Dolls, Dolls, Dolls', and a 'Our Other Blog' which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania.
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(2). (7) Recent Posts From: Our Other Blog: Two Sisters and Two Points of View. Mirror Mirror I love taking pictures of reflections, we do get some beautiful ones on the Huon River but first something a bit more mundane. A wall of my house reflected in a puddle, finally found a use for all that rain we’ve been having. Reflections at Sea Reflections on the Huon Man (and Woman’s) Best Friend When I wrote my cat post last week I said that I often felt that dogs were like four-legged people. Since the first dogs became human companions we’ve bred them for a variety of purposes.
We’ve bred dogs to hunt game large and small, dogs to herd and protect sheepOne of the bus drivers that used to drive the Dover to Hobart bus used to say “When you see the wattle you will see the snow. ” Well the wattle is blooming and snow is forecast for parts of Tasmania tomorrow. I don’t think we will get any but more elevated areas probably will. Items in Cee’s Photo This is the time of year when I almost feel like I have gone into hibernation.
The weather is wet and it makes going out with the camera unpleasant. I seem to have a month or so like this every winter and end up going back to my photo archives for Our Readers.
Founded in Hong Kong in 1966, Playmates Toys is one of the leading toy marketers in the world today. Over the past 45 years, Playmates has brought to market a number of toy brands that defined generations of kids, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Waterbabies, Star Trek, Simpsons, Space Jam, Nano, and the Amazing dolls, among others. Despite the inherent volatility of the promotional toy industry, Playmates Toys has remained a market leader, guided by the operating principles of creativity, flexibility and simplicity. Today, Playmates continues to build upon a strong and focused brand portfolio, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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The Company was founded as Playmates Industrial in 1966, as primarily a doll manufacturing subcontractor for US and European toy marketers. By the mid-1970s, Playmates had earned a reputation as a leading supplier of top quality dolls. In 1978, Playmates took an important step toward becoming a global toymaker by establishing a sales force in Boston to market and distribute its own lines of dolls and preschool toys, Li’l Playmates. In December 1984, Playmates became the first toy company to list on the Hong Kong stock exchange, under the ticker 0075. A portion of the capital raised was used to establish a new marketing and distribution center in California, with the goal of preparing the Company to enter the promotional toy segments of the industry. Two years later, Playmates had its first big success in promotional toys with Cricket, the first ever interactive doll to be brought to the mass market. The initial success of Cricket was quickly followed by one of the greatest hits in the history of toys – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Playmates introduced the Turtles, then an unknown property, at the 1988 New York Toy Fair. Despite an unenthusiastic reception, Playmates pushed forward with the line, funding the first five episodes of the cartoon series. And from an initial 3,000-piece order, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles went on to become one of the greatest success stories of the industry.
By 1990, the Turtles had become one of the best-selling toys ever, and the cartoon show was the top-ranked Saturday morning kids show in the US. The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, released in 1990, grossed over $200 million worldwide, setting a new record for a release by an independent studio. In the same year, the Turtles had an estimated 60% share of the action figure market.
Driven by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles phenomenon, Playmates sales exceeded $500 million in 1990, and the Company became the first toy company in history to generate over $200 million in pretax profit. In 1991, Playmates introduced Waterbabies, a line of water-filled baby dolls. Children and parents were captivated by the life-like, warm and cuddly baby dolls. Waterbabies sales reached reached almost two million units in the US in 1991, making it the number one promotional doll in the US. Waterbabies would remain a top-selling doll brand for over a decade. A number of successful toy introductions followed throughout the 1990’s, including Star Trek, Exo Squad, Primal Rage, and Space Jam.
In 1997, Playmates launched the Nano line of virtual pets, which quickly became a “must-have” toy that Christmas, and established Playmates as a major player in the electronic toys business. The following year, Playmates set a new industry standard for dolls with Amazing Amy, a highly intelligent interactive doll that could respond with over 10,000 phrases. For the next eight years, the Amazing dolls remained one of the most popular doll brands in the US. In 2000, Playmates revolutionized the industry again with The Simpsons collector figures that interacted with playsets with phrases from the TV show. In 2001, Playmates launched the Disney Princess line of dolls.
The relationship with Disney expanded further in 2005 with the acquisition of the Disney Fairies toy license. A number of other toy introductions contributed to the Playmates line-up in the 2000’s, including King Kong, Strawberry Shortcake, Hearts For Hearts Girls, a new generation of Amazing dolls, and the re-launch of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. By maintaining discipline in inventory control, product mix, and overhead management, Playmates has successfully navigated the cycles inherent to the promotional toy industry. Going forward, Playmates will continue to pursue profitable growth by introducing safe, innovative, toys to kids throughout the world.
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