Paper Folding Questions with Solutions

Paper folding questions show a square sheet of paper being folded one or more times and then punched or cut. You must work out what the paper looks like when it is unfolded. A related type, paper cutting, shows a folded sheet with a shape cut out of it. The key idea is that every hole or cut appears again as a mirror image across each fold line when the paper is opened. Work backwards. Unfold the last fold first, reflecting every hole across that fold line, then unfold the previous fold, reflecting all the holes again, and so on. Each fold doubles the number of holes. If a sheet is folded twice and punched once, there will be four holes when it is opened. Counting the holes quickly rules out wrong options. Practise the paper folding questions below. Each solution shows the unfolding step by step.