How to Decorate With Origami Cranes

Garland

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  Prepare your garland by arranging the paper cranes in a circle, facing inward or outward with their wingtips touching. This allows you to determine how large your garland can be given the number of cranes you have.

• 2

  Apply a small dot of glue to the tip of of one crane's wing.

• 3

  Attach the wingtip of the glued crane to the wingtip of another one. The cranes should be angled appropriately to take their place in a circle rather than set side to side.

• 4

  Repeat the gluing steps for additional cranes until you have completed your circle. Use a garland of cranes as a centerpiece with a candle burning in the center.

Chain

• 5

  Thread a large needle with a length of yarn.

• 6

  Tie a knot in the end of the yarn.

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  Insert the needle through the hole at the base of the cranes body and push it out through the center of the crane's back.

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  Slide the crane down the yarn until it rests on the knot, which keeps it from falling off the yarn.

• 9

  Tie another knot in the string above the crane where you want the next crane to rest.

• 10

  Continue adding cranes in this manner until you have a chain of cranes.

• 11

  Tie a loop in the end of the cord and hang the chain.

• 12

  Create multiple chains and hang them across a window as a creative window dressing or hang them from tree branches at an outdoor event.