Jacob Tender
When I was in grade school, I read this book and got enamored with the idea of folding 1000 paper cranes myself. I’m not sure if I hit the number, but I did fold enough to fill a laundry basket (many, many hundred), which I took into school. My teacher hung a bunch of them up and I taught the class how to fold them.
Origami stuck with me for the next few years and I even invented my own folding patter to create a three dimensional turtle. I still fold the turtle whenever I have a spare scrap of paper to fiddle with, but haven’t thought about this book in a while.
When I was in grade school, I read this book and got enamored with the idea of folding 1000 paper cranes myself. I’m not sure if I hit the number, but I did fold enough to fill a laundry basket (many, many hundred), which I took into school. My teacher hung a bunch of them up and I taught the class how to fold them.
Origami stuck with me for the next few years and I even invented my own folding patter to create a three dimensional turtle. I still fold the turtle whenever I have a spare scrap of paper to fiddle with, but haven’t thought about this book in a while.
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