When
eating out at a
restaurant where the
cheap disposable chopsticks are provided, you can construct a
chopstick stand from the
paper wrapper like this:
1) Fold the
wrapper into even
thirds. First fold the left side in, the fold the right side in, or vice versa, so that the outer thirds
overlap. The
horizontal length of the wrapper should now be one third of what it was to begin with.
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2) Now fold the wrapper in half so that the
vertical length is
half of what it was.
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3) This is
the tricky part: stand the wrapper up so that the
peak formed by the last fold sticks up in the air. Push in the
outside corners (those formed by the peak and the two sides of the fold you made in step 2) so that the peak is
perpendicular to the
crease of what used to be the peak, what used to be the
short ends are inside the structure and
parallel to the bottom, with new folds at
45 degree angles from the bottom.
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|/______\| -- push in
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/_______\ pushed in (final)