- Notes
- Thing underlined are movements
- Bring in a crane to show what I’m am going to teach.
Hi, my name is Mae. My story is the story of the origami crane which began with a little girl called Sadako Sasaki. She was just two years old on the 6th of August 1945 when America bombed Hiroshima with a nuclear bomb ending WW2. By November 1954 when she was 11 years old Sadakos neck began to swell and the doctors diagnosed her with leukaemia cancer caused by radiation poisoning.
Sadako was admitted to the hospital in February 1955. While she was in the hospital her father told her about the legend of the cranes. The legend was that if you make 1,000 cranes you would be granted a wish. Sadako set herself the goal of making 1,000 cranes in the hope of being granted a wish. Her wish would be to survive her cancer. Given that she had loads of time sitting in the hospital she began to make cranes. She had little paper available so she made cranes out of medicine wrappings and anything she could find. Her friends would bring in paper to help her. Sadako’s condition slowly worsened over time, and she died on the morning of October 25th 1955 at the age of 12. She had folded 644 cranes in the time she had. Her friends folded the last 356 and buried her with the 1,000 cranes.
Origami Cranes then become the symbol of peace. That’s why I love origami, I also find it very therapeutic and calming.
Here are some pieces of paper, because time is short we are going to make a simple piece of origami, a rabbit.
First, we diagonally fold the piece of paper. The fold the straight bottom up a little. We fold the corner sides into the centre line. Flip it over and fold over the corner head. Then fold the bottom up a bit. Choose whatever face you want to draw on it. There now you have a rabbit in a few steps.
Here are some other examples, a triangle box, a Lily, and a Crane. The amount of things you can make out of origami is endless.
I hope this thought you how to create an origami crane. Thank you for being a great audience I hope you learnt something new today.
