It is said that when one folds 1000 origami paper cranes they are granted a wish.
Here’s a link to a great video showing you how to fold a crane. Will you or have you ever attempted to create 1000 paper cranes? What are some of the ways you would display them?
Absolutely fantastic. Can’t wait to try it.
These are so unbelievably beautiful. I’m about to watch the video, so I can get started.
The branch covered in birds is absolutely stunning. I picked up some origami paper so that I can make myself one for my living room!
I have tried making 1000. I got to about 350 and just couldn’t do it anymore
Ahah thats amazing!!! I would make about 13 and stop! do you still have them?? maybe make one per day cause you got so far, why stop?
Made it to 100 in two days with help of my 8 yearold sister. She loved doing it. Took her a while to learn but she loved it. We made a papercrane rainbow in out room over our closet.
I made 1000 cranes in 19 days. I didn’t do the baby ones but it was still difficult. They’re all over my room now. :3
Oh my gosh! That’s amazing(:
Love them in an ornament. Clever and so simple!
I’ve gotten to 600 and my ex threw them away when we broke up. Now I just make them out of whatever I can at the time, and leave them in random places where ever I go.
Oh my!! That was not very nice of him!! but that is adorable I love that idea of just leaving them all over.
When I was in fourth grade my teacher gave our class a few minutes each day and with a whole class making them-we got up to 1000 fairly quickly.
My roommate and I have had paper cranes hanging from our dorm room ceiling since our freshman year. They’re the first thing people notice and they just love them!
Adorable!!
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I have made thousand cranes long back but could not think of something to arrange them.But here i have found some good ideas .I hope I would soon put them to use instead of those lying in the bowl.
Thanks
Anu
http://www.anu-origami.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-project-senbazuru.html
My fiance and I are currently in the middle of folding 1000 origami cranes for our wedding in june! we’ve got about 550 right now, still going strong!
Congratulations! That will be beautiful!
I made a 1000 when we were in the adoption process. My daughter kept her favourite ones. Now we are in the adoption process again for 2 more brothers and we are talking about maybe doing it again as a family.
I made a bunch of different sizes using scrapboook paper trimmed to different sizes. That worked great because there were similar/same patterns in different sizes so it looked really cool.
this website inspires me to be an artist! i love making random crafts,but when i saw this i was inpresed
Comments like yours inspire me to keep updating this website, thank you <3
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this looks cool but maybe u should put up instructions on how to make the bird cause somebody showed me but i forgot thanks ill come back
I have a video link at the bottom!
These are so beautiful. During the year that I was abused, I made 1000 for a history teacher because he was so kind to me. I was never able to tell him exactly what was going on, or what gave me the motivation, but it meant a great deal to me to be able to give him that gift on my 17th birthday.
I made a thousand cranes once. It took me about two years – although I probably made far more than that over those two years, but I kept losing them. They’re in a box that’s been covered in kanji, and I used the smallest paper I could find. I carry origami paper with me just about everywhere, and so when I’m bored (or drunk), I just start folding. While I don’t only do cranes, I’ve gotten to the point where I can do them blindfolded.
ahha amazing!!!
Only make about 200 cranes in all different sizes. I’m used them for my sister’s wedding. I sprayed them with soft white glitter paint which really gave them an little more class. And I purchased 5 star heluim balloons to “float” the “flock” over the wedding cake. The glitter for the wedding was perfect, and just about everyone commented on them. Had a lot of fun.
I really love you’re paper cranes. Next I recommend telling how to make one!
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Thank you for this amazing site . As a former teacher I always had paper cranes hanging in my classroom and gave them out to my students at the end of the year. I loved your ideas especially the branch. The story that goes with them is “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coer.
For my 11th Grade Art assignment at school I made 1000 paper cranes and hung them in the shape of an atomic bomb, relating to the Hiroshima atomic bomb and the story of “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes”.
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I made 1000 cranes for my son’s nursery. I hung them in his window as a “curtain” and they move with the breeze. I called it my labor of love, it took me 45 hours to make and hang all 1000.
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Thank you for sharing these pictures! I make earrings out of cranes and sell them, as well as strings of cranes. My website shows some pictures: http://makeacrane.wordpress.com/items/
I also collect lots of stuff on the site about peace, hope, love, all the good things in life
I once folded 1000 for my uncle and aunt’s wedding out of gold sheets. It took MONTHS. lol
What a nice gift!
I folded 1000 cranes for my mom, and made a mobile out of it. I had five different sizes. I made them out of random pieces of paper cut to size so it took me forever but it was all about the process!
OMG I cant wait to get to a thousand. I am at about …….2.
but i still need to get origami paper and then im set!! I love the wedding idea!! 
I’ve folded 1000 cranes three times. One for my parents’ anniversary, one for a friend and the other for an ex-fiancé – before he became my ex. I had displayed them in beautiful vases. I hope to make a couple more thousand for my husband and my daughter.
I made 160 cranes for our wedding..one at each place setting plus extras. When my daughter was born 3 years later, I turned the ‘extras’ into a mobile that hangs over her bed.
My school did this for an April Fools’ day prank…
The seniors got the rest of the school to fold 1000 paper cranes, and they hung them in a maths teacher’s classroom.
Everyone wants him as their maths teacher now.
(:
Thanks for the tutorial. Very helpful and I can’t wait to get started?
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I’m currently in the process of doing this for our wedding – I’m at about 800 now and think hanging from the ceiling after will be a great idea… maybe in the room that will (hopefully) belong to a baby one day.