Q&A for How to Fold an Origami Duck

It will float if you use heavier paper that won't fall apart in the water.

Just practice until you don't. Try starting with very easy origami pieces. After getting the hang of it, try challenging yourself by making something a little more harder. Keep doing this until you can do the hardest ones possible. Once you get to the hard pieces, try your best, since you will have gradually improved your skills.

If you're looking to turn a rectangle of paper into a square, take a corner and fold it up and over to the opposite side, making sure the edges match up and the corner is neat. Then cut the small rectangle off the top, and you have a square! Alternatively, you can buy origami paper that is already a square shape.

Cut (or tear) the paper into a square.