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Make your own origami crane!Page 1Made possible through the Wild Birds Unlimited Pathways To Nature Conservation Fund.Make your own origami crane!Begin with a square piece of paper ideally one side coloured and the other plain. Place the coloured side face up on the table. In all diagrams the shaded part represents the coloured side.1. Fold diagonally to form a triangle. Be sure the points line up. Use your thumbnail to make all creases very sharp. Now unfold the paper2. Now fold the paper diagonally in the opposite direction forming a new triangle.Unfold the paper and turn it over so the white side is up. The dotted lines in the diagram are creases you have already made.3. Fold the paper in half to the right to form a tall rectangle.Unfold the paper.4. Fold the paper in half bringing the bottom up to the top and form a wide rectangle.Unfold the rectangle but don't flatten it out. Your paper will have the creases shown by the dotted lines in the figure on the right.5. Bring all four corners of the paper together one at a time. This will fold the paper into the flat square shown on the right. This square has an open end where all four corners of the paper come together. It also has two flaps on the right and two flaps on the left.6. Lift the upper right flap and fold in the direction of the arrow. Crease along line ac.7. Lift the upper left flap and fold in the direction of the arrow. Crease along the line ab.8. Lift the paper at point d (in the upper right diagram) and fold down into the triangle bac. Crease along the line bc.Undo the three folds you just made (steps 6 7 and 8) and your paper will have the crease lines shown on the right.9. Lift just the top layer of the paper at point a. Think of this as opening a cranes beak. Open it up and back to line bc where the beak would hinge. Crease the line bc inside the beak.Press on points b and c to reverse the folds along lines ab and ac. The trick is to get the paper to lie flat in the long diamond ...

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