How Do You Make A Paper Flying Crane?
There is a Japanese legend that if a sick person folds 1,000 paper cranes she will be well again. Sadako Sasaki, victim of the Hiroshima bombing, developed leukemia due to the atom bomb’s effects. Before her death at the age of 12, she succeeded in folding 656 cranes with the hope of becoming better. Classmates, friends and family folded the rest after she died. A statue was erected in her honor. Every year on August 6 thousands of flying paper cranes are hung on the statue in hope of peace. You can make your own flying paper cranes in faith, in fun or as remembrance. Choose a perfectly square piece of paper. It can have designs on it if you like, or it can be one color. Fold the paper diagonally to form a triangle. Crease the folded edge. Unfold the paper. Fold the paper to form a triangle in the opposite direction as last time. Crease the folded edge. Unfold. Fold the paper in half. Crease the folded edge. Unfold. Fold the paper in half again in the opposite direction. Crease the fol
