Origami is the national Japanese art.A crane is one of the symbols of Japan. Paper Crane is a classic figure in origami. It is mentioned in books of the eighteenth century. According to the oldest Japanese legend, one who can make 1000 cranes of paper, makes a wish that comes true!
How to make paper cranes? Here we will take a step-by-step approach.
There is a legend about paper cranes SasakiSadako, a Japanese girl who lived in Hiroshima. 08/06/1945 A nuclear bomb was dropped on the Japanese city. Sasaki was at that time in the house, only a few kilometers from the explosion. She remained alive, although a blast wave threw her through the window of the room. After nine years, she began to die from leukemia - such a diagnosis put the doctors. Literally before her death, the girl learned about the legend according to which a man who made a thousand cranes of paper can make a wish that will come true! Sadako knew how to make paper from cranes, but managed to put only 643 - and died of the disease. Her friends finished the job, and the girl was buried with a thousand cranes. Since then, in Japan, as throughout the world, the origami paper crane is a symbol of peace.
As a child, we folded from the paper "frogs" andboats, not suspecting that we are dealing with origami! How to make paper cranes? He who made boats, it will be easier to learn. Here's how to make a crane of paper with your own hands:
Take a square (necessarily!) Sheet of paper. If you have a rectangular, ordinary sheet, then you need to cut out a square from it.
The square sheet is folded diagonally,unfold and add on the other diagonal. Then turn the sheet on the opposite side. Fold in half. Again unfold, again fold in half, but on other sides. The result is a marking from intersecting lines.
Take our leaf by the middle, where all the folds intersect, and fold. We'll corner the corners. According to the rules of origami, if you make a crane, the workpiece lies with a closed angle up. If the flower, then down.
We bend the corners on the other side.
We bend the upper triangle.
Expand all three corners. Then lift one paper layer from the sharpest end and lay it down with a "boat".
Turn over our workpiece. Push the triangle down.
Expand all three bent corners and make a "boat".
Crane ready, almost. The upper triangles become wings. The lower will be the neck and tail. We fold the lower triangles in half along first from one side, then from the other.
Unbend the lower parts in different directions - it's head and tail!
We turn out a narrow strip and fill it between the wings on one side and on the other.
We bend the end of a narrow strip - this is the head of a crane.
Pull carefully at the ends of the wings. The back of the crane will straighten in the center, will give the figure a volume!
Now you also know how to make papercranes. Our finished paper crane (and, better, a few!) Can be attached to a string and hung, for example, on a chandelier. You can always use colored cranes as interior details. And also a crane can be presented to someone in memory.
