How to make a chain of PAPER CRANES
- Xinru Li
- Apr 30, 2017
- 2 min read
This will be my last official blog as a part of my English project! I don't know whether I will continue writing on this blog yet but it was a very fun process! Since I started with a craft inspired by something I read from a book I'm going to end with one too.
In fourth grade I read a book called Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, where a girl believed if she could make a thousand paper cranes, she could make a wish and be cured of her illness. I have been making paper cranes for a few years by then, but it was the first time I started collecting my paper cranes.
An issue I currently have with my blog is that everything I make eventually becomes forgotten or useless again, as if I gave the items one last moment of glory, like turning a discarded post-it note into a pretty origami flower, but it eventually gets thrown away anyways. So for this final blog, I will turn my boxes and boxes of paper cranes into chains to decorate my house (and hopefully they'll stay there at least for a year). This is already a process I started in middle school, but I have made thousands of paper cranes since then, since origami can be made from basically anything- candy wrappers, annoying college flyers, extra sheet music, old homework, etc etc- I recommend finding your own paper instead of going to get special origami paper. Making all these paper cranes seems like a daunting task, but I had never actually set time aside just to make paper cranes- you can do it while watching a movie, reading a book, waiting in line, and eventually the box of glossy flyers turns into a box of paper cranes.
Time: ~10 minutes per chain (if you already have the paper cranes)
Difficulty level: Easy/Medium
Materials needed: Paper cranes, string, tape, needle
So how do you make it?
1) The paper cranes
Since origami is much easier taught by video, please watch this!
2) Thread the cranes on a string
Loop string through a needle and tie a knot to secure it. Then poke the string into the bottom and through the top. Continue to do this until you have the number of cranes you want, then cut off the needle!
3) Position the cranes
To space your cranes on the string, fold a slip of clear tape underneath where you want each crane. You're done!
If you made this and would like to show off your awesomeness, or if you have any questions/comments/concern/wanna say hi to me, please put it in the comments below!!