How to make: a Möbius Surprise

1. Cut your A3 paper into 4 strips.

2. Take two strips and glue them perpendicularly to make a cross.

3. Make a Möbius strip with each of the perpendicular strips.

4. Cut along the centre line of one Möbius strip until you get to where you started. Then cut along the other.

5. Be surprised.

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