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This page accompanies the video I made showing how to fold a flapping crane.
Look for the video in the library. It can be checked out just like a book. Have fun!

Mrs. Emma Craib
art teacher
Manchester CT USA

Go here to explore the world of origami. Joseph Wu's site is excellent. The best site I have ever found. Type "crane" into his search engine to find some very cool pictures. You have to be observant to navigate to where you find diagrams. Go to "INSTRUCTIONS" then look down to find "DIAGRAMS ON THE INTERNET". Sorry, I can't link you there.

(The plate to the right is a stange E-Bay buy of mine.)

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. This site is commercial, selling many things (the books, videos) but please look at the beautiful animated picture on this page. Wait for the page to load to watch it. To understand the image you must know that a mushroom shaped cloud is the cloud left by an atomic bomb.

How to fold a crane... (the more slender necked version that does not flap) Start HERE. Then go HERE. These pages are on a Japanese site. If you look around you will notice some goofy symbols from the top row of your keyboard (like #*@). The reason these show is that you do not have Japanese characters in your computer font collection and it cannot display what it wants to correctly.

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Origami is a paper art best learned at first from another person rather than a book. After you can do some more complex models you can get a book that shows how to do them. By comparing what you already know with the symbols and diagrams, you can pick up the knack of "reading" origami diagrams.

Check out other origami projecys within our Manchester art site by clicking on the HOME PROJECTS link to your left.

 

Don't forget the video tape you can borrow from the library!