Origami Crane
Extract from Origami Activities for Kids • By Michael G. LaFosse • Published by Tuttle Publishing
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Origami Activities For Kids
The Crane represents the most popular Japanese contribution to origami. It embodies elegant lines, perfect composition, and requires the folder to achieve a certain degree of skill to produce an acceptable model.
The crane has always been an important figure in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese art for many reasons, perhaps the main reason being that
they are beautiful birds with long legs, an elegant neck, a slender beak, and large, powerful wings. The crane is a symbol of peace and represents
an ideal of quiet strength and beauty, fidelity and faithfulness, and patience. It is considered good luck to see a crane because they often travel great distances and could be gone for a long time.
There is an Asian legend that the crane lives for one thousand years. Since the Japanese developed the folding design for the traditional paper crane, the legend has been extended to bestow luck and good fortune on anyone who folds one thousand cranes. Certainly, when times were difficult, anyone with the luxury of enough time to fold one thousand cranes was indeed blessed.
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Step 1Crease in half along the diagonals and the sides.
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Step 2Bring the three corners to meet the bottom corner.
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Step 3In progress...
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Step 4Crease by folding the sides to the center and unfolding.
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Step 5Pull the corner up, allowing the sides to meet at the center.
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Step 6Turn over.
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Step 7Crease the top section.
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Step 8Pull the corner up as in step 5.
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Step 9Fold the sides to the center and repeat behind.
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Step 10Inside-reverse fold the flap upwards.
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Step 11Inside-reverse fold the other flap.
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Step 12Inside-reverse fold the tip of the flap down.
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Step 13Pull the wings apart.
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Step 14Completed Crane. You can blow in the bottom hole to give it more volume.
