How to Fold Secret Notes

Need a way to hide and deliver a note across classrooms without getting caught? Here's your solution!

1. Take a piece of paper and fold it over itself to make a triangle with a rectangle a the bottom.
2. Cut off the rectangle, if you don't have scissors fold the rectangle back and forth and the cleanly rip it off.
3. Unfold the triangle and write your message on the square.
4. Fold the paper diagonally into a triangle with the top left angle and the bottom right angle touching, hiding your message.
5. Unfold your paper and fold it into a triangle the with the top right angle and the bottom left angle touching.
6. Unfold your paper again and pinch the middle where the two creases intersect, this should make your paper look like a mouth.
7. Put one finger in each of the four triangles made by the creases and pinch again and you should have the four creases pushing in with the triangles inclining.
8. Push two of the opposite triangles in toward each other until you get a triangle.
9. Take the two bottom angles on one side of the triangle and fold them up to make a diamond.
10. Flip the paper over and repeat with the other side.
11. Next take the right angle on the triangle and fold it inward until it intersects with the bottom line of the triangle.
12. Repeat step 11 three more times until all of the right angles are folded and you have a shape that looks like a stretched out hexagon.
13. Take the top part of one triangle and fold it inward stuffing it into a pocket.
14. Repeat until all four triangle tops have been pushed into pockets.
15. Find the hole at the top of the shape and blow into it, your paper should blow up into a balloon and your can easily pass it to your friend who will unfold it and read the message.

• Write your message in code so if a teacher or someone else intercepts your message they can't read it.
• Pre-make the balloons and after blowing it up you can write a message on a small piece of paper stick it inside and your friend can shake it out.
• Use smaller pieces of paper to make the balloons and have a smaller message carrier.
• If you used a marker to write your message you may want to decorate it so people can't see through the paper.

• If passing in school, do not use homework or your notes to make message balloons; teachers tend to get upset if they find out.