1. This document provides instructions for folding a giant anteater origami model from a single square of paper. It consists of 99 steps detailing how to crease and shape the paper through folding techniques like valley folds, reverse folds, and squash folds. 2. The finished model will depict a giant anteater standing upright. Several steps are required to shape the body, legs, tail, ears and eyes. Optional locking folds for the hind legs are also described. 3. Additional details provided include the date the design was created, estimated completion time, recommended paper type and size, and attribution to the designer Quentin Trollip from South Africa and Canada.

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3. 4.
Time to fold:
Difficulty:
Date:
Size:
Crease Pattern: Paper:
Ratio:
Type: Kami
Foil
Wet-Fold
Color:
Single Uncut Square
Design and diagram info:
Quentin Trollip
South Africa / Canada
Valley-fold and unfold.
Good
Good
Best
White / Black
35 cm
8 April 2010
Length
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This is 1/3 of the diagonal.
Giant Anteater
Turn over.
Complex
90 min
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9. 10.
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15. 16.
Preliminary-fold.
Enlarge.
Turn over. Pinch.
Valley-fold. Valley-folds and unfold.
Turn over. Valley-fold.
Valley-folds and unfold.
Mountain-fold.
Turn over. Valley-fold and unfold. Valley-fold and unfold.

3. 26. 27. 28.
Valley-folds and unfold.
The model will not lie flat.
23. 24. 25.
the left.
The result.
Squash-fold the raw corner up.
20. 21. 22.
Reverse-fold in and out.
Valley-fold.
17. 18. 19.Valley-fold. Unfold.
Unfold the raw corner.
Valley-fold on existing crease.
Push the raw edge through to
the left.
Inside reverse-fold on existing
crease.
Squash-fold to flatten.
Repeat steps 15 to 20 on

4. 29. 30. 31.
32. 33. 34.
Swivel-fold.
Turn over.35. Enlarge.36. 37.
Valley-folds and unfold. Inside reverse-folds.38. Valley-fold and unfold.39. 40.
Valley-fold two layers to the
right.
Lift the top layer to look under.
Wrap the raw edge around. Mountain-fold.Flatten the layer lifted in step 30.
Repeat steps 26 to 34 on the left.

5. 42. 43.
See markers.
Valley-fold and unfold.
Collapse on existing creases.
44. Unfolds.
45.
46.
Pull out the raw edge and
hidden corner. Preliminary Fold on the
existing creases.
47. Inside reverse-folds.
48.
49.
Lift the point slightly.50. Side view.
indicated point and then flatten.
51. 52. Open-sink the
up.
Inside reverse-fold.
Valley-fold the raw corner
through all layers.
Valley-folds and unfold
Open-sink both sides on creases
41.
made in steps 43 to 45.

6. The result. Valley-fold one layer.
The result.
the left.Valley-fold one layer.
Valley-fold and unfold.
Unfold the raw edges. Closed-sink the triangle. Inside reverse-folds.
Valley-fold. The result.
Valley-fold the next layer, while
squash-folding the edge.
Valley-fold the point down.
Pleat-fold the point.
53. 54. 55.
56.
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62.
57. 58.
60. 61.
63. 64.
Repeat steps 54 to 56 on

7. The result.
Scale change.
Valley-fold one layer to
the right. the left.
65. 66. 67.
68.
71.
74.
69. 70.
72. 73.
75. 76.
Repeat steps 62 to 65 on
Valley-fold and unfold.
Repeat steps 69 to 70 on
the right.
Turn over.
Swivel-fold. Valley-fold the edge.
Pinch both sides. Pleat-fold. Swivel-fold.
Valley-folds
and unfold.

8. 77. 78. 79.
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84.
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88.
Swivel-fold.
the left.
Rotate.
Place the upper layers into the
layers underneath it.
Pleat-fold both the legs.
The model will not lie flat.
Outside crimp-fold the tail.
Swivel-fold the base of the tail.
Repeat behind.
Inside reverse-fold.
Swivel-fold.
Redo the pleat-folds of step 82
and place the layers into the
pockets formed in step 84.
Unfold the pleat-folds of step 82.
Valley-fold the model in half.
Optional steps to lock the layers of the hind legs.
Closed-sink the upper set
of layers.
Repeat steps 76 to 78 on

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Enlarge.
Squash-fold to shape the ears.
Squash-fold to form the eye.
Repeat behind.
Valley-fold.
Repeat behind.
Inside reverse-fold.
Shape the nose.
Scale change.
Crimp-fold the feet.
Shape the belly and tail.
Giant Anteater.
Outside reverse-fold. Outside reverse-fold.
94.