anika

Hi, I'm Anika! 👋

I'm 9 years old and I love making things.

🎨 drawing 📚 reading books ✂️ crafts 🛩️ paper planes 🔮 fortune tellers ✨ this website!

These are the best books ever. I have read some of them more than once!

Dog Manby Dav Pilkey

Ella Diariesby Meredith Costain

Yotsuba&!by Kiyohiko Azuma

Cat Kid Comic Clubby Dav Pilkey

Geronimo Stiltonby Geronimo himself 🐭

Coming soon... I'm going to put my best drawings right here!

🏓Pickleball

🏸Badminton

🏊‍♀️Swimming

I make paper planes that actually fly far, and fortune tellers that tell your future. Here is how YOU can make them too:

Fold in half the long way (tall like a door). Run your fingernail along the fold to make a sharp crease, then open it flat again. That middle line is your guide for everything.
Fold the two top corners to the middle line so they touch it exactly — no gaps, no overlap. Now the top looks like a roof.
Fold the slanted edges to the middle again. The point at the top gets long and sharp — that's the nose of your plane. Crease hard!
Fold the whole plane in half backwards so the folds are hidden INSIDE and the sharp nose stays at the front.
Make the wings: fold one side down so its edge lines up with the bottom of the plane. Flip it over and fold the other side EXACTLY the same, so both wings match.
Open the wings flat like a T and throw! Hold it under the middle, point it slightly UP, and throw smooth and gentle — a soft throw glides way farther than a hard one. 🎯

Get a perfect square. If you only have rectangle paper: fold one corner over to make a triangle, cut off the extra strip, and open it — square!
Fold corner to corner to make a triangle, open it, then fold the OTHER two corners together and open again. You'll see an X of creases pointing at the exact center.
Fold all 4 corners into the center, one at a time, so their tips touch the middle of the X. Now you have a smaller square.
FLIP the paper over — this is the step everyone forgets! — and fold all 4 corners to the center again. Even smaller square.
Fold it in half both ways (like a book, then like a sandwich) and open each time. This makes it bendy so it can open its mouth.
Slide your thumbs and pointer fingers under the four square flaps on the back, then pinch and push together — it pops into a little beak that opens two ways!
Decorate it: colors on the 4 outside flaps, numbers 1-8 inside, and write 8 secret fortunes under the inside flaps. Then ask someone: pick a color... 🔮

Video tutorials from YouTube.