ORIGAMI

WHAT IS ORIGAMI?

• Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into different shapes and animals.
• Ori means fold and gami means paper.

WHO INVENTED ORIGAMI?

• No one really knows who invented origami.
• In 105 AD Ts'ia - Lun was one of first recorded people to fold paper.

THE LARGEST ORIGAMI CRANE

• The largest origami crane is 215 feet long and weighs 1750 pounds.
• The crane had to be built inside of a football stadium.
• The crane was built for Wings for Peace.

SMALLEST ORIGAMI CRANE

• The smallest crane is 0.1 by 0.1 millimeters.
• Mr. Naito was the one who folded it. He had to use tweezers and microscopes to fold it.

THE LARGEST ORIGAMI TRAIN

• The longest train was built by a man named David Brill and the British Origami Society.
• The paper train had 1,150 paper train cars.
• The train was also 254 meters long.

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