Above the din of excited chatter in an Astoria classroom, a group of fourth-graders eagerly watched a live demonstration on how to fold a paper crane. The students had written messages of hope on ...

A T.J. Walker Middle School teacher, inspired by the book "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes," asked her students to help fold 1,000 paper cranes for a colleague battling cancer. Kasee Jandrin, a ...

My children taught me how to fold origami cranes. They learned years ago from a Japanese babysitter named Jiro Hatano, who happened to be one of the smartest, kindest and most gentle people I’ve ever ...

Liverpool, NY -- Twenty-two sixth graders in Diane Lansing’s art class at Donlin Drive Elementary School in Liverpool have folded a thousand origami paper cranes to be sent to Hiroshima, Japan as a ...

Students in school counselor Annie Caulfield’s “Roots and Chutes” service club created a mobile with hundreds of paper cranes folded by fourth- and fifth-graders and presented it to the Juneau Pioneer ...