How to make a paper kunai



Ninja knives were used at first as gardening tools but now fantasized to be throwing and stabbing weapons, especially in popular japanese animes and mangas such as Naruto. Now you can make them yourself out of paper!

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Fold in extra paper instead of cutting off 

Create two square pieces of paper, preferably black construction paper <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. You might want to use two because it's thicker, but you can use one if you want. (Fold one corner like a triangle and cut off or fold in (folding is recommended because it makes it heavier and it doesn't waste paper)

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fold one corner to the opposite side <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. It should now look like a triangle

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fold a crease half way through the paper <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. It should now look like a smaller triangle.

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Take one of the short sides of the triangle (not the long one) and fold the edge to the middle <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep folding repeatedly until you can't fold it anymore and tuck the extra paper inside the kunai <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Squish the paper from top to bottom so that it creates a kunai shape <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. (Grasp by edges and press) This step isn't that necessary. It just makes a flater kunai.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Take a second piece of paper and roll it the long way and tape it <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Insert the tube into the hole <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grab the tube and make sure you have enough so that you can hold it <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. The extra should be flattened.

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Use a series of folds and reverse folds on the flat side of the tube to create a circle <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tape the circle so that it stays <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tape or staple the tube into the back of the kunai (where the hole is <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.)

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; text-align: center; line-height: 15.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> 13.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">                t   <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ake something heavy and put it inside the knife so that it can fly better <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. Pennies are good and cheap. This step is optional

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: 14.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: dashed #BFBFBF .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seal the kunai with paper or thick tape so that the heavy object doesn't come flying out when you throw it <span style="color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.