Sadako Sasaki
Sadako Sasaki, a young girl of twelve, develops leukemia caused by exposure to the atom bomb dropped on her city of Hiroshima, Japan at the end of WWII. While in the hospital, Sadako learns to fold origami cranes and believes that folding the cranes might lead to the granting of a wish. A loving and compassionate child, Sadako's life inspires her classmates to create a memorial in her honor, to remember all the children impacted by war.
This statue was made in honor of Sadako. People still bring paper cranes to it.
You need white computer paper, pencil and scissors.
This crane mobile was a project my kids worked on while I was out on maternity leave years ago.
I left the sub a lesson for origami crane folding and asked for an array of colors.
Kids used old magazines instead of origami paper.
They pulled out pages that had a large amount of one color and made them into a square.
After folding them into origami cranes, they were arranged into color order, connected with fishing line and then hung from a bamboo stick. This is in our cafeteria as an art installation. It hangs about 7 feet tall.
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Also, you can make the cranes and stuff candy inside.
Insert a stick through bottom for party favors too.
I did this for my daughter's first Birthday party, which is May 5,
the National Children's Peace day in Japan .
I used scrapbook paper. It is patterned and comes square.
Don't have origami paper?
Cut your paper in to a square and Decorate.
Listen to this music to get you in the mood to make origami,,,
