4 Towel Animals Tutorial

Today, as summer is approaching, we decided to show you how to make towel animals for all the fun vacations/staycations coming your way. The four towel animals I've decided to teach today is the classic swan, peacock, elephant, and a stingray.

To make a SWAN towel animal, you will need one hand towel (although I assume you can do it with a regular towel), and lay it horizontally. Then find the middle, and roll both sides in towards eachother. After that, flip it over, so the rolled together parts are on the bottom, and fold up the neck and fold down the head at the top. It won't stay very easily, so I held it down and pressed hard for a few seconds and that seemed to work. If you are having trouble with it staying, an alternative would be to put hair elastics around the folds to keep it folded. 

To make a PEACOCK towel animal, follow the same steps as the swan, except you'll need an additional towel the same size. Fold the second towel in half vertically, (aka hotdog style, aka the long way) and begin folding the shorter side over under over under, like making a fan. Once that if folded all the way down, wrap a hair elastic around the bottom to hold the folds in place, then gently rest it on the swan's back. 

To make an ELEPHANT towel animal, again make a swan (but this time it has to be out of a hand towel sized towel), but don't fold the swan just yet. First, take your larger, regular sized towel, and fold it in half horizontally (the hamburger way) then roll the folded side and the ends side toward eachother (sort of like a scroll). Now take it and sort of just lift it onto both ends to stand up like a rainbow. It stays pretty well. Now take your unfinished swan, and flip it to the side with the rolls on the bottom, then where the towel comes to a point, bend it back, sort of in a circle like how an elephants trunk is and hold it there with pressure. Then on the opposite ends, just sort of flop the ends out, making the ears more visible and placing it on top of the rainbow thing we just made.

Lastly, to make a STINGRAY towel animal, take your larger towel and fold it in half the horizontal way, (the way that makes all sides more even then the other way), then fold one corner of the sort of square towel down to the corner across to make a triangle. From here, lift up the center and push it together, then roll up a smaller towel and put it underneath to complete the tail. 

That is all! I hope you enjoyed my towel animals, and maybe even make your own!