Origami Crane - Origami 3D

Origami Crane. The origami crane is the most well known of all the origami models: These instructions should make it easy for you to make your own beautiful crane. Use some pretty paper to make the crane: it is a very elegant bird!

Start with a perfectly square sheet of paper

The origami crane is perfect as a gift or gift tag as a decoration, or as the first step to making a senbazuru. The cranes are delicate, but surprisingly easy (and fun) to fold, so don't hesitate to give this craft a try.

A thousand paper cranes are traditionally given in Japan as a wedding gift by the folder, who is wishing a thousand years of happiness and prosperity upon the couple. … [I]t is commonly said that folding 1000 paper origami cranes makes a person’s wish come true. This makes them popular gifts for special friends and family.

Cultural significance
The Japanese origami crane (??). A thousand paper cranes are traditionally given as a wedding gift by the father, who is wishing a thousand years of happiness and prosperity upon the couple. They can also be gifted to a new baby for long life and good luck. Hanging a Senbazuru in one's home is thought to be a powerfully lucky and benevolent charm.

Several temples, including some in Tokyo and Hiroshima, have eternal flames for World Peace. At these temples, school groups or individuals often donate Senbazuru to add to the prayer for peace. The cranes are left exposed to the elements, slowly dissolving and becoming tattered as the wish is released. In this way they are related to the prayer flags of India and Tibet.
In Western countries, the custom has been extended from giving a senbazuru to cancer patients, to using them at funerals or on the grave.

Sadako Sasaki
The Thousand Origami Cranes was popularized through the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who was exposed to radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II. Sasaki soon developed leukemia and, inspired by the Senbazuru legend, began making origami cranes with the goal of making one thousand. In a popular version of the story as told in the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, she folded only 644 before her death; in her honor, her friends completed the rest and buried them all with her. In an alternate version of the story, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum states that she did in fact complete the 1,000 cranes. Paper FoldingOrigami Crane How to fold, How to fly