I remember when I was in school we read the most amazingly inspiring book called Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes By Eleanor Coerr. This story has always stayed with me. It is a true story based on a two-year-old girl named, Sadako Sasaki who was living in Hiroshima when the atom bomb was dropped. Ten years after that she was diagnosed with leukemia, thanks to the atom bomb. The Japanese culture has a legend that if a sick person creates 1,000 paper cranes, the Gods will make them well again. Sadako believed this and spent hours in bed, folding paper cranes, and never giving up that hope. She folded 644 before she died, her classmates finished the rest for her. In Japan there is a statue of Sadako holding a crane in Hiroshima Peace Park, and every year on Obon Day, people leave cranes at the statue in memory of their ancestors. The reason this story stayed with me is because it is a story of hope and faith. So I wanted my children to read this book and learn how make oragami. Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding, to create beautiful. Origami has many benefits:
Each kid has a box then pops it open and starts folding.
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As a mom of three boys who go to public school I started to notice that some things were not being taught in detail so I decided to create lessons for them. Many of these lessons cover science, history and of information about Paganism. I share crafts for the all different holidays and cultures as ways that they can learn and have fun at the same time.
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