Others learn to fold

Laura

Joy

Connie

Una

Betsy was a very popular person, we're both very outgoing. It didn't take long for people to ask if I would teach them to fold so they could do this for someone who had cancer.  Betsy would help and often donated some of her cranes to start their cranes. I continue to do that today whenever we start another 1000 cranes.

This blossomed into not only breast cancer, but for pancreatic cancer, a soldier in Iraq, a drama camp folding for a chilren's hearing & vision clinic, a wedding ...there is no limit to fold 1000 cranes for someone special.

I will go to anyone's home or setting, free of charge (or for a contribution for gas or time) to start the process. You will find that folding is very therapeutic. It is calming and allows you to think about the person or cause you're folding for , and when there is a group, it allows the group to discuss their concerns and plans to help.

These are the tips I've learned after launching over 16 groups!

Melissa

Ken and Kayoko

Wedding 1001 cranes

Starbuck's on Main Street -

The manager was "sent to jail" - customers "bailed" her out.

(forgot the organization!)

Camellot Drama Academy kids

Children's Mercy Hospital Hearing and Speech Deparment

Brady

Soldier in Iraq

(requested anonymity)

My sister, Andrea

(lung cancer)

My traveling cranes.

I take these whenever I do a presentation or go and teach others.

The host needs a big table and limit to no more than 1o-12 people.

Everyone gets origami paper ! All sizes, colors and patterns.

Print out instructions. I have a sample  that I use that  I can email the host. But do not  hand out beforehand! Origami is the art of folding paper. Doing this by hand first, repeating it 3 times...then using instructions to remind you is the best way.

No alcohol until friends/family have folded  THREE cranes. Trust me!

A "point person" always emerges who ends up obsessed with folding. They can keep track of the count and then let everyone know when you've reached 1000! They can also do a quality check to be sure the folds are correct!

Once you're done, plan a time to give them to your lucky recipient.

Group reunites to string 20 strings of 50 cranes. Fishing line is recommended. You can add ornamental beads or stone in between the smaller paper and do all sorts of trick. The strings can be attached to branches, decorated curtain rods, mosaiced rods, however creative you want to be. I will come and help show you how to string them.

St. Luke's Cancer Institute

During a brief stint working as a barista at Starbucks, (I taught patients and family to fold 1000 cranes. They were installed in the infusion center.  A drug representative donated the plate.  Starbucks awarded $1000 to the Institute for each hour the patients and volunteers spent folding at $10.00 an hour! What a great community service.