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.
Planning for this assignment took some creative experimenting, trial, and error...
While toying around with the idea of this lesson, I originally liked they way the background of the real photos I found of bubbles was very blurry. So, I used the crayon resist method here.
I drew the bubbles with white and baby blue crayons (make sure they are not washable!) and added some contour reflection lines inside. Then I used markers to sloppily add in a landscape using horizontal lines.
Then I used a wet brush to go over the marker till it bled out making it blurry. The marker in the process washed off of the wax lines and left the bubble still visible (crayon resist method.).
I did not like all the aspects of this first attempt, so I tried it on the black paper which I like much more.
