Hello! My name is Millie Gulan and I want to show you today how to make the crane. The crane according the Japanese tradition, it's a symbol for long life peace and health. Behind me, it's a thousand cranes done by Israel and Palestinian kids and with my Palestinian partner, and the kids fold it and go together to origami. So I want to show you how to do the crane and maybe you can find friends with cranes.
Okay now we fold edge to edge so I got a rectangle, okay open side faced to you and then edge to edge then square, open, open side faced to you, fold edge to the middle line, okay. Turn over edge to the middle line. Then we have the long edge, you open it up, and behind fold the corner then open it up.
Now one side is open, one is closed; you hold it on the closed side faced to you and fold open edge to the middle line, one side and the other side as well. Turn over, we do the same on the other side, open edge to the center line; we make the Israel and Palestinian really came close together to the Japanese art through the origami and this can happen -- now you lift up the triangle open one side, other side, lift it up and fold every edge to the center line. Crease it, turn it over, fold a triangle and there is two triangle; open it up, open on side, other side, fold it up and with a small triangle really important the small triangle will be lifted like that and then fold it, every edge to the center line and then now I got two like a scissor, two triangle like a scissor and this edge I fold one corner only to the center. Just make sure that it starts from the top; always start from the top, okay without a side spell, turn over then do the other side as well.
The best is to fold on the table then you can get much more accuracy that I do and see. Okay, now there is many ways to do the crane and I show you something that I think it's easy for someone don't know origami -- two side here, two side here. I take one side, turn to the other side, like we turn page in the book, okay you got that, turn over then you have one, two, three at one side and one in the other side then you fold from the three to the one. Then you go to triangle and then not triangle, two polygon and along corner, you take the top corner to the top, bottom to the top, turn over and do it again, and then I have this side here and this side here; we take one side to the other, turn over and then from the three to the one.
So what we got now, we have two right triangle and narrow are inside. So what we do, I take the narrow -- I lift it a bit outside, not too much, you don't need to pass this edge and then I do the head of the crane. Always you know when you make the crane one triangle is more accurate than the other. So the one that is not really correct, you do it the head. If you want put them together and make for the thousand crane like that then you need to leave them close like that, and then you put them on top of each other, if you want to play with them as Japanese does also, we can open it up then you have the crane. For us they have - the crane helped to bring peace and make the Israel and Palestinian kids to get together and like each other and see each other as a people not like how Israel and Palestinian. So, we hope you can make it too and please look on our Website to see folding together project.
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