If you experiment with the folding of the crocodile’s eyes, many variations can be made. The shape of the snout can change too.
Begin with a square of origami paper, colored side up.
1. Fold and unfold corner to corner. Turn over.
2. Fold the top left and bottom left edges of the paper square to the center line.
3. Similarly, fold the top right and bottom right edges also to the center line, eliminating all the white paper from view.
4. Unfold the paper back to Step 1.
5. Rotate the paper to the position shown. Fold just the single valley fold as shown...
6....like this. On the colored triangle, make the mountain and valley folds as shown. These folds will collapse the paper flat...
7....like this. Repeat Steps 5–6 on the left-hand side.
8. The paper is now symmetrical, left and right. Turn over.
9. Make a valley fold where shown at the junction of the X-ray dots . . .
10....like this. Valley fold the point back down, just a little above the level of the first fold.
11. Fold the paper in half, but only make a very small pinch across the middle.
12. Fold in half.
13. Fold up the loose corner.
14. Fold dot to dot.
15. Again, fold dot to dot.
16. And finally, fold again dot to dot.
17. This is how the eye should look. Make the other eye by repeating Steps 13–16 on the back.
18. Make an Inside Reverse Fold. Note that the top of the fold touches the midway pinch made back in Step 11.
19. Pull out the eye assembly so that both eyes stand out at right angles to the plane of the head...
20....like this. Note how this makes the eyes look forward, down the line of the snout.
21. To make the crocodile snap, hold as shown. The first finger is behind the eyes and the thumb is up inside the lower jaw.
