How to Make a Chinese Paper Yo Yo
- 1). Cut a strip of gift wrap paper 4 1/2 inches wide and 36 inches long with your scissors.
- 2). Attach the strip of wrapping paper to the towel with a piece of tape.
- 3). Roll the dowel up in the gift wrap paper and hold it wrapped tightly for three to five seconds.
- 4). Hold the paper-wrapped dowel in one hand and flick your wrist downward to extend the paper. Tilt upward to let the paper retract.
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