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Japanese print from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Origami is Very Useful!•Craft Projects while babysitting

•Gifts (Christmas, birthdays,etc.)

•Classroom lesson plans about Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes)

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•Affordable decorating ideas

How to Make a Paper Crane:

Step 1: Turn one square around to look like a diamond

Step 2: Fold it in half from top to bottom:

Step 3: Fold the paper in half from left to right.

Step 4: Lift the top half up along the middle fold line. Open out the paper and press it

down neatly into a diamond.

Step5: Turn the paper over and make the same fold on the other side.

Step 6: Fold and unfold the lower (open) sloping edges and the top point as shown.

Step 7: Pinch and lift the front flap of the paper

Step 7: Continue to lift the flap so its edges meet in the middle.

Step 7: Press the paper flat to make it diamond shaped

Step 8: Turn the paper over and repeat the fold on the other side.

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Step 9: Fold the lower sloping edges over so they lie along the middle line.

Step 10: Repeat on the other side

Step 11: Inside reverse fold the bottom point

Step 12: Inside reverse fold the remaining bottom point

Step 13: Inside reverse fold the tip of one of the point to make the head and the beak

Step 14: bend the wings down and apart

Step 15: Flatten and puff out center, and you have a completed crane!