DIY Hanging Paper Cranes

Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Margaret. Filed under Do It Yourself.


This is a really cute DIY entry from Kristen!

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Paper cranes are a great way to accent a wedding with an Asian theme.  They’re versatile, easy to make, and origami paper is pretty cheap.  You’ll have to bear with me though as my wedding hasn’t happened yet, so the pictures I post really don’t do justice to the project.  My apologies.

 

 

How can you use them?
You can use these hanging paper cranes in multiple ways.  As pictured above, they can be creative escort card holders, but be sure to have a sturdy background because the tiniest bit of wind will cause them to twirl around.  If you have a nature theme, you can hang them from a string (use a paper clip as a hook) and put them against a blue background – it’ll be like birds on a wire.  You can also use them as decorations for the various tables (sign in, guest book, buffet, dessert, gifts, etc.), or hang them from manzanita branches in a decorative vase to serve as a centerpiece.

So how do you make them?

 

Materials:
- origami paper
- thread and needle
- decorative beads (2 sizes)
- scissors

 

Procedure:
1. Fold origami paper into a paper crane (as demonstrated here)

2. Pick out any kind of beads you want.  For my project, I used opaque white beads that were about 1/4″ in diameter, and clear beads that were about 1/8″ in diameter.  Bought them at Jo Ann’s for about $3.50 total. 

3. Cut a piece of thread into a 7.5 inch strip.  Put the thread through the larger bead (make sure the ends match) and then slip the two ends into the needle.  Take the needle and slip it through the smaller bead.  It should look like the picture below, although I accidentally took off the needle.  Don’t do that, keep the needle on.

4. Then you will take the needle (with the thread and beads) and slip it through the hole at the bottom of the crane.  Then carefully guide the needle straight up so that it punctures the peak of tbe crane’s body, as shown below.

5. Pull the needle through until the beads touch the crane.  Then you’re going to the take the thread and knot it.  It’s best if you use a string-like thread, something with a some grooves; if it’s too thin, it’ll easily slip through the crane.

6. If you’re going to make them as escort card holders, cut a slit between the head and the body.  For these cranes, I cut an “escort card” that was 1″ x 3″.

 

The origami paper I used was roughly 4.5″ x 4.5″.  It doesn’t produce a large crane, as the picture below shows (the crane is being compared to a Dove promise chocolate):

 

How is Kristen going to use them?
I’m getting some branches, spray painting them a light gold, and putting them in a cylindrical vase with leaves wrapped around the inside.  I’ll hang about 50 paper cranes (it only took me a few hours to string them as my MOH was kind enough to fold them) and will put the vase on the escort card table so that the cranes are hanging over the tented cards.  I was going to put votive candles underneath but realized that the heat wouldn’t be good with the paper cranes.  Maybe I’ll get those flickering light kind of votives.  Unfortunately I don’t have a picture of all this just yet.  Check my bio in about 5 months. ;)

But you can really make this your own – origami paper comes in all sorts of designs and you can get colorful with different beads and thread.  You can even hang multiple cranes on one thread (make sure the knot is big enough so the cranes don’t slide through).  Get creative and have fun!



28 Responses to “DIY Hanging Paper Cranes”

  1. kas Says:
    February 7th, 2010 at 11:17 am

    This is a lovely idea.

    i made some of my own, and they turned out really well!

    thanks. :)

  2. Never Says:
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    can’t wait to see more pictures.

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    June 8th, 2010 at 4:03 am

    I made over 650 cranes for my daughters wedding. I hung them in columns about 2.5 meters long, over 70 cranes in a column, hung on a wreath of eucalyptus leaves, they looked spectacular!

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