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My only ambition in life is to get the Napkin trick known in every country in the world.
In fact it would make me very happy to meet someone from Maug, or somewhere else obscure,
who showed me the napkin trick - only to find out that he learnt it from a friend who
learnt it from a friend who learnt it from a friend..... who learnt it from me!
The first picture shows this naughty little piece of origami being enjoyed in the Caribbean. The next shows hilarity being bought to the Netherlands. The gentleman with the pert paper breasts is a Korean physicist - which helps my plans at spreading this around the world.... |
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| The Napkin trick was taught to me by "mad Uncle Rodney". When I asked him how he came to know of this he told me that he learnt it "from the academy of accomplishments". Which a is quite sane reply for him ;-) |
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Okay, this is how it's done. Get a square napkin and fold the top edge towards the middle. Next fold the bottom edge towards the middle. Now hold the napkin like this first picture, such that when you pick it up the open flaps meet and the folded napkin is now a quarter of its original size. | 
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| Rotate it through 90 degrees and put it down. It should now look like the second picture. |
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Now take hold of the open flappy-bits (marked by the orange arrows).
Hold the right hand flappy-bit that is uppermost and the right hand flappy-bit that is
bottom most between the middle finger and thumb of the right hand. Make sure you
are not holding the part of the napkin that runs between the flaps (marked by the blue arrow).
Do the same with the left hand flaps in your left hand. Now get a friend to do a drum roll....
Maintaining a firm grasp, on the count of three pull your hands laterally outwards whilst pulling them into your chest. Hey presto! You've got cheeky after dinner origami! | |
