Butterfly Cube

Make a Four-Sink Base as explained in the previous section. To avoid creases at the center from showing, do not crease the center of the paper when doing Step 1 of the base.

1. Start with the back

side of the Four-Sink
Base facing you.

4. Unfold to Step 1.

3. Fold the corner in.

2. Fold the two

corners shown.

6. Fold and unfold

tips slightly to mark
tabs (optional).
Turn over.

5. Repeat Steps 24
at other corners.

Finished
Unit

x6
Pocket

Tab
7. Fold and unfold the
four corners shown,
then orient them to
point towards you.

8. For each corner now

pointing towards you,
spread open the slits
and curve outwards.
Pocket

Four-Sink Base Models

Tab
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Assembly

B
A
Insert tab
into pocket.

Mountain fold
tips A and B,
both units
together.

Two units
locked.
Mountain fold line PQ, both units
together. PQ will lie along one
edge of the finished cube. Continue
assembling all six units similarly
such that each unit lies on a face of
the finished cube and each locked
joint lies on an edge of the cube.

Q
B
A
P

Butterfly Cube.

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Butterfly Cube